Hello Nulik,
in my answer, I suppose that you use the latest script version with
setxkbmap.
First thing first, if you look at the script, "Foo" being the 3rd parameter
(and lua being 1-index based), it will be the caption display in the widget
for your keyboard configuration.
kbdcfg.widget:set_text(" " .. t[3] .. " ")
Regarding the first and second params in the config, they are used in the
generated command configuring your keyboard mapping.
os.execute( kbdcfg.cmd .. " " .. t[1] .. " " .. t[2] )
Generating respectively `setxkbmap us ` (blank spaces as 2nd is "") and
`setxkbmap us dvorak`
They served to select a special variant of your keyboard mapping. Without
variant, you get the default mapping.
Read manual of setxkbmap for full info.
Regarding your errors, I can't really say. Send your personal version of
the lua code so we can see what's wrong.
Cheers
Kineolyan
On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 3:42 PM Absolute Zero <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am having hard time configuring keyboard layout, I want russian ,
> english and spanish. But I do not understand how to configure. I am
> following the instructions from here:
> https://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Change_keyboard_maps
>
> But what does this mean:
>
> kbdcfg.layout = { { "us", "" , "Foo" }, { "us", "dvorak" , "Bar" } }
>
> ????
>
> What should be Foo ??? What should be Bar ??? Why is the "us" parameter
> duplicated ? Why there is an empty space as the second parameter in the
> first list? Are these two lists somewhat related to each other ?
> I have tried many options but I just get some weird errors in the log like
> these and nothing works:
>
> Sep 10 08:22:32 dev1.home /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[7394]: >
> Abandoning symbols file "default"
> Sep 10 08:22:32 dev1.home /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[7394]: Errors from
> xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
> Sep 10 08:22:32 dev1.home /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[7394]: (EE) Error
> loading keymap /tmp/server-1.xkm
> Sep 10 08:22:32 dev1.home /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[7394]: Error loading
> new keyboard description
> Sep 10 08:22:32 dev1.home /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[7394]: The XKEYBOARD
> keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Sep 10 08:22:32 dev1.home /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[7394]: > Error:
> No Symbols named "es" in the include file "us"
> Sep 10 08:22:32 dev1.home /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[7394]: >
> Exiting
> Sep 10 08:22:32 dev1.home /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[7394]: >
> Abandoning symbols file "default"
>
> Could someone explain the input parameters on the keyboard code snippet ?
>
>
> TIA
> Nulik
>
