Hi,
Boo_boo wrote:
does anyone know how to read xkb state info (current keymap, LEDs) without C
programming?
got a wireless keyboard without hardware LEDs, wanna see xkb LEDs in wmii
status bar,
but it seems that all present utilities that can read xkb state doesn't like to
give it back via stdout, but prefer to display it graphically in some
eye-appealing manner, which is completely useless for me.
I think, we might have similar keyboards - mine has no LEDs either)
'setxkbmap -v' prints some stdout-info for me (keymap and so on).
Concerning LEDs, this issue I ignore: I've turned numlock on all the
time (there's even a Debian-package called numlockx for turning numlock
on when X starts), and the darned caps lock key I never needed my whole
life (not even when SHOUTING at people :). once I discovered one can set
the xkb-option ctrl:nocaps (iirc) in xorg.conf to replace capslock with
an additional ctrl-key, this problem was also taken care of ...
regards
Bernhard
