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NOTE: As of version 1.0 KKBSwitch has online documentation, so refer to it for
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more information. This README file will no longer be maintained, but the
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documentation will instead.
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KKBSwitch
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by Leonid Zeitlin <lz@europe.com>
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Version 1.0
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KKBSwitch is a keyboard layout indicator for KDE 2. It is useful when you have
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configured the XKeyboard extension of your X Server to have more than one
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keyboard group, for example US/ASCII and Russian. KKBSwitch displays an icon
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in the system tray that indicates which layout is currently active. Note that
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KKBSwitch does not help you configure XKeyboard, it merely serves as the
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indicator of the current group. You still have to configure XKeyboard by
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editing XF86Config file.
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KKBSwitch features:
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- displays an icon in the KDE's system tray indicating the active keyboard group
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- you can switch keyboard groups by clicking the icon or selecting the
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desired group from the icon's menu
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- icons corresponding to different groups are configurable (chosen from country
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flag pixmaps that ship with KDE)
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- "Toggle mode" (see below for more).
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Using KKBSwicth.
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The most basic usage is simply to let it sit in the system tray and show you
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which keyboard group is currently active. You can also click the KKBSwicth
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system tray icon to switch keyboard layouts. When right-clicked, the system
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tray icon displays a menu with the following entries:
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- one or more entries corresponding to the configured keyboard groups (XKeyboard
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can have up to 4 groups configured). The currently active group will be checked.
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Selecting a menu entry corresponding to a group will make that group active.
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- "Configure Keyboard Switch..." entry lets you configure KKBSwitch
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- "About Keyboard Switch" displays a standard "About" dialog
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- "Quit" quits KKBSwitch.
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Configuring KKBSwicth.
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In the KKBSwitch configuration dialog you can do the following:
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- set the icons corresponding to the available keyboard groups. Note that
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KKBSwitch will try hard to guess the correct icon based on the name of the
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keyboard group (the names are configured in XKeyboard). For example, it will
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display the US flag for US/ASCII group, German flag for German group, Russian
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flag for Russian group, etc. If it cannot guess an icon, it will display the
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"default" icon, which simply shows the group's number. Use the configuration
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dialog to customize the icons: select a group in the "Available keyboard groups"
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listbox, and click "Change icon..." button. You will be able to select from the
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list of country flag pixmaps that is shipped with KDE.
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- turn the "Toggle mode" on and off. "Toggle mode" is a convient feature of
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KKBSwitch, which is useful if you have more than 2 groups. When "Toggle mode"
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is on, pressing the XKeyboard's group switch key or clicking KKBSwitch's tray
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icon will toggle between the two most recently used groups. To activate the
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third or the fourth (if available) group you'll need to right-click KKBSwitch's
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tray icon and select the desired group from the menu. For example, I have
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US/ASCII, Russian and Ukrainian layouts configured. Most of the time I use
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either US/ASCII or Russian layout and switch back and forth between them without
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activating the rarely needed Ukrainian layout. But sometimes I need to write
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something in Ukrainian, so I select this layout from the tray icon's menu. When
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"Toggle mode" is on, the two most recently used groups will be marked with an
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asterisk in the KKBSwitch tray icon's menu.
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DCOP Bindings
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As of version 0.2, KKBSwitch can be manipulated programmatically with DCOP.
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It exports an interface named KBSwitchIntf. The interfaces offers the following
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methods:
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- int getNumKbdGroups() - returns the number of configured keyboard groups
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(layouts)
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- ASYNC selectNextGroup() - does the same thing as clicking on the KKBSwitch's
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tray icon, i.e. makes the next keyboard group active. If in "toggle mode", toggles
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between the two recently used ones, just like clicking on the tray icon does.
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- ASYNC selectGroup(int groupno) - makes the group whose number is groupno active
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(like selecting a group from the tray icon popup menu)
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- QStringList getGroupNames() - returns the list of the keyboard group names,
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as configured in XKeyboard.
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