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commit 4aebe252cbbb69e0860c2ab7153b638d28a4b5e5
parent 29af6f30aef3d4f31295c700cf63cd6f46812e69
Author: Anders Damsgaard <anders.damsgaard@geo.au.dk>
Date:   Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:54:49 +0200

added script to switch keyboard layout between two values

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bin/keyboard-layout-switch.sh
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1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/bin/keyboard-layout-switch.sh b/bin/keyboard-layout-switch.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# the language is written to ./.kbd-layout
+LAYOUTFILE="./.kbd-layout"
+
+# define two languages
+LANG1="us"
+LANG2="dk"
+
+# write the file if it doesn't exist
+if [ ! -f $LAYOUTFILE ]; then
+    echo "us" > $LAYOUTFILE
+    setxkbmap $LANG1
+    exit
+fi
+
+# read the language file, and switch to the other language
+CURRLANG="`cat $LAYOUTFILE`"
+
+if [ "$CURRLANG" == "$LANG1" ]; then
+    echo $LANG2 > $LAYOUTFILE
+    setxkbmap $LANG2
+else
+    echo $LANG1 > $LAYOUTFILE
+    setxkbmap $LANG1
+fi