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How to show the GUI of keyboard layout on XFCE? like Gmome or MATE (see the picture)

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Xfce provides You with this option in Settings => Keyboard under Layout section. However it does not show any visualization, just a simple list.

If You want to have an icon on your panel, like in Windows, You can add xfce4-xkb-plugin widget. Here it is nicely explained: https://fitzcarraldoblog.wordpress.com/2012/12/29/selecting-different-keyboard-layouts-in-xfce/

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  • The whole point is to get a visualization of the layout.
    – Mark
    Commented Jul 14, 2019 at 0:14
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    Sorry for misleading info - i thought, that settings changing would be what You really want. So exact answer for Your question would be: You can not For visualization/edition you can however install some additional software, such as: github.com/simos/keyboardlayouteditor
    – Piotr Sawicki
    Commented Jul 16, 2019 at 10:24
  • Or use some terminal application like explained in this post unix.stackexchange.com/questions/348021/…
    – Piotr Sawicki
    Commented Jul 16, 2019 at 10:30
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    Yeah the point here is that there is no simple overview to see how your layout translates to your physical device/s. There are a billion or so permutations of layouts and what not. It's quite nice to be able to glance at so you can figure out where certain punctuation lies etc.
    – Progrock
    Commented Feb 10, 2021 at 15:55
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I was missing this, too (recently switched to Manjaro XFCE). Fortunately, if gkbd-keyboard-display is installed in your system (it most often is), you can write a little bash 3-liner to call it up, showing the currently set keyboard layout:

#! /bin/bash
# Show current keyboard layout
layout=`setxkbmap -query | grep layout | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f2`
variant=`setxkbmap -query | grep variant | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f2`
gkbd-keyboard-display -l ${layout}$'\t'${variant}

I call mine show-kbd and you can put it into ~/bin or /usr/local/bin, for example. Here’s an example for my keyboard: show-kbd

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