How to change KEYBOARD LAYOUTS in XFCE,LXDE (Openbox,e17,ICEWM,Fluxbox)

READ! THIS IS DETAILED EXPLANATION!
Many people experience problems setting up and
switching keyboard layouts in lightweight desk-
top environments or lightweight window managers
like xfwm, ***box family,icewm, e17 etc...
Basically there is one simple command that can
solve this problem, here it is:

setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll

In the end after the word "scroll" u will need
to add your keyboard layouts separated
by comma. I will use english and russian.
U can replace the "alt_shift" section with any
other key combination for switching layouts..

setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll us,ru

Now u will have to paste this line to the END
of your /home/user/.bashrc file. It's a hidden
file and has "." in the beginning. Replace
"user" with your username. Use any
editor u want and scroll down till the end of
the file, i will use nano: sudo nano /home/username/.bashrc.
So now we paste the command with your layouts to the end of
the file. Hit Ctrl+x, u will be asked
to overwrite the existing file,
Hit "y" and Enter to save.

Now, when u inserted the command to your
.bashrc file. The settings will be kept even
after restart. So now u can use alt+shift or
whatever u choose for swithching the layouts

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[MrCMBstE]

Wow! You're brilliantly awesome! Thanks a lot!

[yooyoomine]

@MrCMBstE thanks for using this tutorial mate

[MrStanleZ]

Hi,

I made this, but after restart nothing work. Now I search for any help 1 years long.

Xubuntu 11.10, xfce 4.8

[yooyoomine]

@MrStanleZ i think in xfce it is pretty straight forward now! u need to install the xfce4-xkb-plugin package with synaptic or apt-get. then right click the panel and click add items, there u will have the layout switching tool. cheers

[MrStanleZ]

@yooyoomine

Hi, its worked in Lubuntu 11.10 / Xubuntu 11.10 only if at startup I run terminal. If not, I have on panel only US layout. I think, its a way to something start a terminal at startup. But I dont know how to start and close it at startup sequence in Lubuntu / Xubuntu 11.10, in the file .bash.rc or in any other *. conf.

Thank You, I searching next.

[yooyoomine]

@MrStanleZ did u try too look in menus? in "settings" there is "startup applications" that is a part of xfce desktop environment. just paste the command there. it is there for sure cause i have seen it

[MrStanleZ]

@yooyoomine

Now its finally work as is in my video, indel LXDE, Lubuntu 11.10, Xubuntu 11.10.

[yeahbabyitslaura]

This seems to be a very good solution, something that i've been looking for, but I couldn't found a .bashrc file. I created one myself and pasted that line but it didn't work when i restarted.

[MrStanleZ]

HI yooyoomine,

Today keyboards layouts are finally revealed, using 2 linux manuals.

Thanks,

Have a nice day.

:-)

Stanley

[yooyoomine]

@nikolar91 d

[yooyoomine]

@nikolar91 it must work, but if not - u can just make a script with this command to make it run when lxde starts. if u don't know how to make a script, google has a lot of advices. as for second question. ru for russian it is like something u know all your life but u cant determine who told u that)) i dont know the difference between serbian latin and the original "sr".. sorry