René Neumann <[email protected]> writes:

> Am 12.07.2013 01:45, schrieb lee:
>> Zeus Panchenko <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>>> René Neumann <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Just to avoid confusion: What exactly do you mean by 'charset'? I
>>>> figured you ment 'keyboard layout', and this is what I answered.
>>>>
>>>
>>> definitely keyboard layout
>>> sorry for mistake
>> 
>> If there was some sort of "window switching hook" that could be used to
>> execute a command and which would be called by i3 when focus changes,
>> users could set up something to switch keyboard layouts depending on
>> which window has the focus.
>
> Could anybody explain to me, why the proposed solution (using xxkb or
> kbdd) ist not feasible? I mean: This is just the usecase they were
> intended for...

It was just an idea; I don't know what the proposed tools do.  Since the
WM knows which window is focused, it seems to make at least as much
sense to have such hooks for whatever usage as it does to be able to
bind various things to keys.


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