decart/x-switcher-fork

XSwitcher - keyboard layout switcher for linux

This is a fork of part of another repository (https://github.com/ds-voix/VX-PBX/tree/master/x%20switcher).

Additional info here: here (Russian text) or here (English text)

Unlike the original, the cyclical change of the layout along the left Control key is disabled here. To enable it back uncomment this lines: main.go#L403-L407

Compile and install

You must have a golang compiler (https://golang.org/doc/install). Then install the required dependencies.

sudo apt-get install libx11-dev libxmu-dev
go get "github.com/micmonay/keybd_event"
go get "github.com/gvalkov/golang-evdev"
go get "github.com/BurntSushi/toml"
go get "github.com/spf13/pflag"

Then build xswitcher.

go build -o bin/xswitcher -ldflags "-s -w" --tags static_all src/*.go

Xswitcher needs a root permissions to work. Copy xswitcher from bin to user's home directory and then change file mode and owner.

chmod +xs xswitcher
sudo chown root:root xswitcher

Now you can add xswitcher to your DE autostart.