Xkbswitch-macosx

Console keyboard layout switcher for Mac OS X.

The utility for switching current layout in terminal. You can use it whenever you need that functionality (for example, for tmux statusline when one is running in fullscreen terminal). Also you can use it as auxilary utility for vim-xkbswitch plugin for changing the keyboard layout in Mac OS X. The utility should work on all versions of Mac OS X since 10.6.

Vim integration

For integration with vim-xkbswitch you need to install this library and follow instructions from there.

Installation

For installation put executable file from bin directory in any directory in your $PATH variable. For example you can put it into /usr/local/bin with this command (if source files of utility in your Download directory):

$ cp ~/Download/xkbswitch-macosx/bin/xkbswitch /usr/local/bin

Usage:

xkbswitch -g|s [-n|e] [value]
where:
-g - get number of layout
-s - set layout by number of list of layouts
-n - code mode (default mode)
-e - string mode (combine it with -g|s to get current layout name or set layouts by its name)
-l - list all available keyboard layouts (their names)

Examples:

set layout:

$ ./xkbswitch -se RussianWin
$ ./xkbswitch -se US
$ ./xkbswitch -s 2
$ ./xkbswitch -s 1

get current layout:

$ ./xkbswitch -ge
$ ./xkbswitch -g

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Alexander Myshov

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