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A bit related to this previous question of mine, I wonder if there's a way to query what is the current layout.

Say I have run

setxkbmap -layout it,ru -variant ,phonetic -option 'grp:caps_toggle'

and that I've presset CapsLock a few times. How can I tell programmatically what of 2 states I'm in?

Interactively I can simply type some characters to check, but I want to do it programmatically, so I can have that state printed in a status bar or something.

I was also thinking of some hack, like synthetically hitting CapsLockfCapsLockf, and then checking whether the output is фf or fф, which would tell me the current layout is it or ru respectively.

xdotool seemed the correct tool for this, but unfortunately Caps_Lock corresponds to the function of the ordinary CapsLock key, and not to what the setxkbmap command above has set it to, so this

xdotool key Caps_Lock f Caps_Lock f

results in Ff regardless of what layout is active.

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  • Does this help? [check-lock-keys-state-from-command-line](https://askubuntu.com/questions/541784/check-lock-keys-state-from-command-line) – aviro Nov 06 '22 at 11:44
  • @aviro, no, it doesn't. Like `xdotool` seems to not know about the behavioral change that `setxkbmap` has applied to CapsLock. – Enlico Nov 06 '22 at 11:52

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