Re: command line retrieve list of kbd layouts and variants (to use with setxkbmap)

2012-07-27 Thread Giuseppe Penone
this one works on lubuntu 12.04 pkg-config --variable=xkb_base xkeyboard-config many thanks. Giuseppe. On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Alan Coopersmith < alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 07/27/12 08:50 AM, Giuseppe Penone wrote: > > the problem of parsing /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.x

Re: command line retrieve list of kbd layouts and variants (to use with setxkbmap)

2012-07-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 07/27/12 08:50 AM, Giuseppe Penone wrote: > the problem of parsing /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.xml is that the location > of > the file may vary from distribution to distribution > according to the prefix. I think /usr/share/X11/xkb/ is fairly common, and newer distros should have .pc files

Re: command line retrieve list of kbd layouts and variants (to use with setxkbmap)

2012-07-27 Thread Giuseppe Penone
the problem of parsing /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.xml is that the location of the file may vary from distribution to distribution according to the prefix. anyway since the manual is supposed to change syntax I will go that way... I'll probably implement a procedure to locate the base.xml file at

Re: command line retrieve list of kbd layouts and variants (to use with setxkbmap)

2012-07-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
If you're trying to parse them, why not use the original files such as /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.xml instead of the man page that's generated from them?The XML & XKB files have a far more reliable format than the man page, which can change at any time, since we don't expect people to try to

Re: command line retrieve list of kbd layouts and variants (to use with setxkbmap)

2012-07-27 Thread Giuseppe Penone
I realize that doing man -P cat xkeyboard-config all the output goes to stdout and can be parsed with a script or c code. Cheers, Giuseppe. On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Giuseppe Penone wrote: > Great thank you, just bad that there's not a "--help" command, it would be > great to parse th

Re: command line retrieve list of kbd layouts and variants (to use with setxkbmap)

2012-07-27 Thread Giuseppe Penone
Great thank you, just bad that there's not a "--help" command, it would be great to parse the output from c code. Cheers, Giuseppe. man xkeyboard-config :) > > Cheers, > Peter > ___ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.o

Re: command line retrieve list of kbd layouts and variants (to use with setxkbmap)

2012-07-26 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 08:34:00AM +0200, Giuseppe Penone wrote: > Hi, is there a way from command line to retrieve the list of all available > keyboard layouts and relative variants? > > I need to list all the available layout/variants choices to be used then > from setxkbmap. > > Also about the

command line retrieve list of kbd layouts and variants (to use with setxkbmap)

2012-07-25 Thread Giuseppe Penone
Hi, is there a way from command line to retrieve the list of all available keyboard layouts and relative variants? I need to list all the available layout/variants choices to be used then from setxkbmap. Also about the layout toggle options, is there a way to retrieve a list of all available choi