XKBSEL(1)

📦 version 0.13, in arch rolling

💅 XKBSEL(1) — the xkbsel glow-up

okay so bestie, this is xkbsel — the little command-line icon that picks your keyboard layout. It lives in the XKBSEL(1) section of the manual, and it's genuinely so useful. Let's get into it 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

xkbsel [-v] [--debug] [-s] MAP
xkbsel [-v] [--debug] {-n,-p}
xkbsel {--help,--version}

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So <italic>xkbsel</italic> is a command-line interface for selecting the keyboards — and it's literally the most flexible girlie ever. It's suitable for:

  • installing as an action bound to some key combination in a window manager,
  • inclusion in scripts,
  • or plain command-line usage. 💅

xkbsel supports the following options, and yes, we're going through all of them:

  • -s MAP, --select=MAP — selects the named MAP. that's it, that's the whole job 🫶
  • -n, --next — select the next map in the ordering defined by the configuration file. next bestie, next ✨
  • -p, --previous — select the previous map in the ordering defined by the configuration file. we're going back, no cap 💀
  • -v, --verbose — be verbose. she's talking 🗣️
  • --debug — be very verbose. she's talking a lot 🔥
  • --help — output brief usage instructions 👑
  • --version — output the version of the program 🏷️
okay so this part matters, bestie, listen up 📢

The MAP can be specified either as a full XKB name (e.g. xfree86(us) or sun/de(type4_de)), or as a shortcut defined in the configuration file.

The options -n and -p only work when the current mapping was specified in the shortcut form — otherwise they select the first and the last map respectively. fr fr, that's the rule, don't come for me 🙈

🦋 FILES 🦋

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

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read them, iykyk 👀

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Stanislav Meduna <stano@trillian.eunet.sk> — the main character who made this happen 👑

anyway that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this was xkbsel, from the xkbsel source, dated 22 Jul 1999 — yes, 1999, she's vintage and she still ate 🎀✨

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