I just discovered that this only happens when I change the layout via evdev.
When changing manually via setxkbmap de or pl the xkb_symbols line
changes and your code would work.
2010/5/27 <orsch...@gmail.com>:
> 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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