NAME¶
kbdd - simple per-window keyboard layout switching daemon
SYNOPSIS¶
kbdd [
-n |
--nodaemon ]
kbdd [
-h |
--help ] [
-v |
--version ]
DESCRIPTION¶
kbdd is a simple keyboard layout daemon that switches and restores layouts on a
per-window basis.
- -n, --nodaemon
- run in nodaemon (foreground) mode
- -h, --help
- print a short usage summary
- -v, --version
- print the program version
DBUS INTERFACE¶
Kbdd registers a dbus interface in order to notify a window manager about layout
change and listens on this interface for incoming requests. This interface can
be used in WM widgets to indicate the current layout.
The dbus interface has the following methods:
- getLayoutName( uint32 )
- returns a string representing the layout group name
- set_layout( uint32 )
- sets current group
- getCurrentLayout
- returns current layout group id
- next_layout
- switches to the next keyboard layout
- prev_layout
- switches to the previous keyboard layout
The following events (signals) are available:
- layoutChanged
- returns new group number
- layoutNameChanged
- returns name for the new group
You can change the layout with the following dbus-send command:
dbus-send --dest=ru.gentoo.KbddService /ru/gentoo/KbddService ru.gentoo.kbdd.set_layout uint32:1
BUGS¶
Some users reported problems with sticking meta-keys (Alt or Meta4), however, at
the moment there is not enough information collected to conclude if this is
caused by kbdd or not.
Newly found bugs may be reported on
the project page at
github
AUTORS¶
Alexander V. Vershilov
This manual page was updated for the Debian project by Stanislav Maslovski
SEE ALSO¶
dbus-send(1),
dbus-monitor(1)
You can get more information about kbdd usage on
wiki pages
of the kbdd project