Can you add keyboard layout variant?

[ChoiZ]

When I write in French I use Bépo layout (like dvorak for french language)

$ setxkbmap -query
rules: evdev
model: pc105
layout: fr
variant: bepo

How can I display "fr (bepo)" in my polybar?

I can see there's 3 variables in the module/xkeyboard.cpp:
%name%
%layout%
%number%

Is it possible to add the variant variable?

Regards

[jaagr]

Hi,

Isn't it visible when using the %name% token?

label-layout = %name%

[ChoiZ]

Nope :(

[jaagr]

Mine says French (Bepo, ergonomic, Dvorak way) when I run setxkbmap fr bepo... a bit long but you can create your own keyboard def and change it to whatever you like. See man setxkbmap and man xkbcomp

[jaagr]

I like how it says ergonomic... for someone who never used dvorak it sure is painful (took a while to get back ;P)

[ChoiZ]

Ok when I run setxkbmap fr bepo I've got the same thing French (Bepo, ergonomic, Dvorak way).

Is it easy to get only "bepo" value, but how can assign this value thanks to setxkbmap -query |grep variant|cut -d ' ' -f 5 to the variable %variant% in you xkeyboard.cpp ?

[jaagr]

The xkb extension doesn't expose a way to specifically get the variant used from what I can see.

[NBonaparte]

One solution to this is to parse whatever is in the parentheses and set that to a %variant% token.

[acarril]

One solution to this is to parse whatever is in the parentheses and set that to a %variant% token.

How would you do this? I'm sorry, but I don't know much about Polybar module config.

[patrick96]

@acarril This was a comment about how this could be implemented. This is not a feature in polybar yet.

[acarril]

Oh ok, thanks!