determine the current keyboard layout from a shell?

[Piter_]

Hi all.
How can I determine the current keyboard layout from a shell?
(I have two layouts in use)
Thanks

[panta]

Try

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xset -q|grep LED| awk '{ print $10 }'|cut -c5

This will give you 0 for the default layout and 1 for the other one.

[debil]

Try

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$ setxkbmap -print

Check out the line with xkb_symbols in it.

[Piter_]

Try

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$ setxkbmap -print

Check out the line with xkb_symbols in it.

This will only show the available layouts

Try

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xset -q|grep LED| awk '{ print $10 }'|cut -c5

This will give you 0 for the default layout and 1 for the other one.

This may work.

Thanks

[Piter_]

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setxkbmap -print -v 8  | grep ^layout | awk 'END {print $2}'

This was my final solution