I am using 'i3` window manager on Fedora 25. I've already uninstalled GNOME Desktop. I want to change keyboard layout and set it to languages other than English, and desirably also to set it as Alt+Shift shortcut for easy access.
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You can use setxkbmap:
setxkbmap -layout us,de
setxkbmap -option 'grp:alt_shift_toggle'Just change the keyboard layouts us,de to what ever you prefer. If you want i3 to run these commands on startup, just add them to your config file "~/.i3/config" and prepend "exec".
exec "setxkbmap -layout us,de"
exec "setxkbmap -option 'grp:alt_shift_toggle'"Checkout
11It indeed seems that everything must be written inside a single command in the i3 config file in order for setxkbmap to work as desired, at least on Arch linux.
Example: English + Czech qwerty keyboard, ALT+SHIFT toggle:
exec "setxkbmap -option 'grp:alt_shift_toggle' -layout us,cz -variant ,qwerty"For me only the following worked in Manjaro + i3:
exec_always "setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us,ru,ua -variant ,, -option grp:alt_shift_toggle"I specified this in ~/.config/i3/config file
1"exec setxkbmap" didn't work for me. Through frustrated keyboard smashing, I accidentally pulled up the display settings (Super+D since I installed from Regolith-desktop), and from there I could open up "Region & Language" to set the keyboard layout. I guess i3 "Ubuntu" keyboard layout settings are store separate from "Kubuntu" keyboard layout settings.
0insert into your .config/i3/config
# switch keymap
bindsym $mod+Ctrl+Shift+F11 exec setxkbmap -layout ch -variant fr
bindsym $mod+Ctrl+Shift+F12 exec setxkbmap -layout ru -variant phonetic
