Issue with multiple Keyboard layout configured...

[grwlf]

Issue with multiple Keyboard layout configured...

[grwlf]

Hi! Just to be clear.. do you mean 'layouts' when talking about keyboards? Or you really has several keyboards attached to one computer (never tested this case).. Could you please provide me with the output of xkb-switch -x ? It should print your layout string as reported by X.

[BUGgs]

Yes, because my users can have different keyboard connected to the device (of course, not at the same time)... So they just have to change the active layout to the one that is connected on the device.... In general 3 differents keyboard are enough... But it's the same with 4... Here in my example, I've put French, German, US-Intl, Spanish with Spanish by default... Same issue... French and US-Intl are mixed... Here is xkb-switch -x output:
pc+es+fr(winkeys):3+us(intl):2+de:4+inet(evdev)+group(ctrl_shift_toggle)
My target is to find the active one with xkb-switch (not to change them)

[grwlf]

Ok, how do you change the active keyboards? Physically unplug the old one (say, French) and plug another (say, German)?

[BUGgs]

I will explain better... I have around 1.000 Linux devices... Some of them are with French Keyboard, some of them are with a German Keyboard, etc... And sometimes, user can swap physically the keyboard themselves...
So, to have an easy way to handle the multiple keyboards, all different keyboard are configured in Ubuntu/XFCE, with one by default... Like German...
When a user is coming on a device, if the active keyboard isn't the same that the physical, he is using the keyboard shortcut CTRL+SHIFT to change the active keyboard to the one a want...
And this is were the issue is... Sometime, the result of xkb-switch is wrong...

[grwlf]

Ok, I have an idea. Here is your XKB string.

pc+es+fr(winkeys):3+us(intl):2+de:4+inet(evdev)+group(ctrl_shift_toggle)

pc , es , fr , us are actually filenames somewhere in xkb config database. The meaning of :2 :3 :4 parts were unclear to me so xkb-switch currently ignores them. All examples I saw so far had those numbers strictly increasing. But in your case they are mixed ( 3-2-4). May be they are index hints in the layout array.. Could you remove us(intl), readd it, then post the output of xkb-switch -x once again to see what has changed?

[grwlf]

The questions are: 1) Are those numbers reflects the order in which user adds their layouts to the system 2) Does xkb-switch work correctly in your situation if the numbers are increasing..

[BUGgs]

Hi, I removed us(intl) and put German as default and here is xkb-switch -x output:
pc+de+fr(winkeys):2+es:3+inet(evdev)+group(ctrl_shift_toggle)
In this case, xkb-switch is detecting correctly the active keyboard for all layout...

[grwlf]

Well. Probably, numbers are hints indeed so, as a workaround, you can try to setup your layouts so that the numbers increase. I'll try to find out how they really work and make xkb-switch to take them into account.

[ierton]

Hi, @BUGgs ! Could you please re-test the application? We have redesigned the X11-driver code, it may fix your issue.

[grwlf]

I am closing this one due to timeout.. Please, reopen if the problem is still here.