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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.

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  • How do you switch between layouts? If it's with XKB, see stackoverflow.com/questions/15499723/… . I don't know what ready-made programs react to that event. – Gilles Sep 3 '14 at 20:59
  • @Gilles Thanks for reference, need to check full event processing loop in X11 / GTK, but it is still helpful and still better than nothing – d.sergeiev Sep 11 '14 at 16:39
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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)
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  • Thanks for answer. I hoped there is a way to catch the layout change, but looks like i'll have to stick to catching layout change key press and work with it. – d.sergeiev Sep 3 '14 at 14:18

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