Re: command line retrieve list of kbd layouts and variants (to use with setxkbmap)

2012-07-27 Thread Giuseppe Penone
Great thank you, just bad that there's not a --help command, it would be great to parse the output from c code. Cheers, Giuseppe. man xkeyboard-config :) Cheers, Peter ___ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives:

Re: command line retrieve list of kbd layouts and variants (to use with setxkbmap)

2012-07-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
If you're trying to parse them, why not use the original files such as /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.xml instead of the man page that's generated from them?The XML XKB files have a far more reliable format than the man page, which can change at any time, since we don't expect people to try to

Re: command line retrieve list of kbd layouts and variants (to use with setxkbmap)

2012-07-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 07/27/12 08:50 AM, Giuseppe Penone wrote: the problem of parsing /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.xml is that the location of the file may vary from distribution to distribution according to the prefix. I think /usr/share/X11/xkb/ is fairly common, and newer distros should have .pc files so

Re: command line retrieve list of kbd layouts and variants (to use with setxkbmap)

2012-07-27 Thread Giuseppe Penone
this one works on lubuntu 12.04 pkg-config --variable=xkb_base xkeyboard-config many thanks. Giuseppe. On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@oracle.com wrote: On 07/27/12 08:50 AM, Giuseppe Penone wrote: the problem of parsing /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.xml

Re: command line retrieve list of kbd layouts and variants (to use with setxkbmap)

2012-07-26 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 08:34:00AM +0200, Giuseppe Penone wrote: Hi, is there a way from command line to retrieve the list of all available keyboard layouts and relative variants? I need to list all the available layout/variants choices to be used then from setxkbmap. Also about the