Keyboard layout change indicator

Question

I have (and often change) 3 keyboard layouts on my Mint 17/Mate. I would like to see a notification on my screen when layout is changed, e.g. "Switched to English/US". I tried to do it via keyboard settings, to find a program or script to do it, but I couldn't.

The question is: are there any programs to show current layout OR is there a way to catch layout change event from X11 in user script? Any advice or guide to information would be appreciated.

Update: I've found notify-send to actually send notification, now I need to catch layout change event.

Answer 1

I didn't change my keyboard layout very often, but when i do it, i use (for exemple) :

setxkbmap fr

There's also an option to show the current layout of your keyboard :

setxkbmap -query

result :

rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     fr
options:    terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp

Considering this, you could do something with the notify-send command to send the layout as a notification. Something like this :

notify-send $(setxkbmap -query | grep layout)