Ah sorry my fault, accidentally I broke the line down with \. Nice your solution is working. :)
But do you have any idea why toggling via evdev doesn't affect the xkb_symbols line? 2010/5/27 Andreas Amann <am...@physik.tu-berlin.de>: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 03:25:32PM +0200, orsch...@googlemail.com wrote: >> 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? > > strange. What is the output of > xset -q|sed -ne "2 s/^.*00000000/uk/ p; 2 s/^....*/de/ p" > on command line? What is the output of > xset -q|head -2 > for each layout? > >