XKBSEL-AW(1)

okay so bestie, this is xkbsel-aw(1) — the Xaw GUI that lets you pick your keyboard and shows the current selection like the main character it is. 💅✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

xkbsel-aw — select keyboard layout using a Xaw GUI.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

xkbsel-aw [OPTION]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

xkbsel-aw is a simple GUI for selecting the keyboards and indicating the current selection. It displays a window where the current selection is indicated. When you click on this window, a menu of the configured map shortcuts together with the descriptions pops up, allowing you to select one of them. It installs the first configured map when started.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

xkbsel-aw has no own options, bestie — but it accepts common Xt options such as:

• -display — common Xt option it accepts
• -geometry — common Xt option it accepts
• -bg — common Xt option it accepts
• -fg — common Xt option it accepts

As the map descriptions are normally written in local language, xkbsel-aw is using font sets instead of fonts to allow automatic encoding selection based on current locale. That means -fn will not work. Use fontSet for this purpose, either on the command line using e.g. -xrm '*fontSet: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-m-*-*-*' or use application default file.

⚠️ bestie, seriously: -fn is not it here — fontSet is the move. 💅

🦋 EXAMPLES 🦋

🍓 Fvwm2 configuration 🍓

Following lines added to .fvwm2rc will automatically start the selector on login:

Style "xkbsel-aw" NoTitle, Sticky, WindowListSkip

AddToFunc "InitFunction" "I" ...
[...original stuff...]
+ "I" Exec exec xkbsel-aw -geometry 48x24-0-0 &

If you are using FvwmWharf or FvwmButtons modules, instead of starting and explicitly positioning xkbsel-aw in InitFunction you can dock the application into them using the Swallow directory, e.g. by adding the following line into your FvwmButtons configuration in .fvwm2rc (should be written on single line):

*FvwmButtons(Swallow (NoHints) "xkbsel-aw" 'Exec xkbsel-aw -geometry 48x24')

To switch the keyboards on ctrl-F1, -F2 etc., add something like this into your .fvwm2rc:

Key F1 A C Exec exec xkbsel us
Key F2 A C Exec exec xkbsel sk
Key F3 A C Exec exec xkbsel cs

🧚 FILES 🧚

• /etc/xkbsel.conf — system configuration file
• ~/.xkbsel/xkbsel.conf — user´s configuration file

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

xkbseldb(1), xkbsel(1), xkbsel(5)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Stanislav Meduna <stano@trillian.eunet.sk> — the icon behind this page.

okay that’s the whole manual, bestie — source/version xkbsel, dated 22 Jul 1999. go forth and switch keyboards with main character energy 💖🦋✨