Knowing keyboard layout

[Fernando Apesteguía]

Hi there,

Is there a way to know from a script what keyboard layout is currently in use?

I use setxkbmap to switch between different layouts, but I don't know how to actually query about the current one in use.

TIA

[Jesús Daniel Colmenares Oviedo]

Hi,

Use -print flag:

```

$ setxkbmap -print
xkb_keymap {
        xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
        xkb_types     { include "complete"      };
        xkb_compat    { include "complete"      };
        xkb_symbols   { include "pc+es+inet(evdev)"     };
        xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc104)"     };
};

```

[Fernando Apesteguía]

And then parse that line to extract the "es" part? That is the information I'm interested in.

Thanks!

         xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc104)"     };
};

```