I tried your code but this always just displays 'de'. There is no
change while toggling between the layouts.
2010/5/27 pascal <lepasca...@gmail.com>:
> Le Thu, 27 May 2010 15:25:32 +0200
> orsch...@googlemail.com a écrit:
>
>> Hello Andreas,
>>
>> your solution is almost working. The only thing that doesn't fit is
>> the length of the output. de/pl should only by two letters but in the
>> output there are a plenty of blanks before. I assume this happens
>> because the eight digits were substituted by only two letters?
>>
>> Better understanding:
>>
>> xxxxxxde where 'x' stands for a blank
>>
>> Could that be corrected to use not so much space in the bar?
>>
>> 2010/5/27 Andreas Amann <am...@physik.tu-berlin.de>:
>> > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:49:59PM +0200, orsch...@googlemail.com wrote:
>> >> Thanks for the hint Andreas. xset -q shows a difference between both
>> >> values. I tried to implement it into my statusbar but as I'm not
>> >> familiar with bash scripting it doesn't work. This is my trial:
>> >>
>> >> #set statusbar
>> >> while true
>> >> do
>> >> #define keyboard layout
>> >> if [ "$(xset -q | grep "LED mask:" | awk '{ print $10 }')" ==
>> >> "00000000" ] ; then
>> >> kb = "de"
>> >> else
>> >> kb = "pl"
>> >> fi
>> >> if acpi -a | grep off-line > /dev/null; then
>> >> xsetroot -name "Bat. $( acpi -b | awk '{ print $4 " " $5 }' |
>> >> tr -d ',' ) | Vol. $(amixer get Master | tail -1 | awk '{ print $5}' |
>> >> tr -d '[]') | $kb | $(date +"%a, %b %d %R")"
>> >> else
>> >> xsetroot -name "Vol. $(amixer get Master | tail -1 | awk '{
>> >> print $5}' | tr -d '[]') | $kb | $(date +"%a, %b %d %R")"
>> >> fi
>> >> sleep 1s
>> >> done &
>> >>
>> >> Could you help me out please?
>> >
>> > The following works for me:
>> > while xsetroot -name "$(xset -q|sed -ne "2 s/^.*00000000/uk/ p; 2
>> > s/^....*/de/ p") | $(date +"%a, %b %d %Y | %H:%M")"
>> > do
>> > sleep 2s
>> > done &
>> >
>> > Andreas
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
> You can use this :
> while xsetroot -name "$(setxkbmap -print | grep xkb_symbols | awk
> '{print $4}' | awk -F"+" '{print $2}') | $(date +"%a, %b %d %Y | %H:%M")"
> do sleep 2s
> done &
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