Use localed to get default XKB settings #6
Description
Currently when starting "kmscon" without configuration, the keyboard layout is always "us" and can't be switched during runtime.
A more sensible default would be to query localed for the system wide settings, if available.
Example wrapper script using dbus-send:
#!/bin/sh
# Get a property value from org.freedesktop.locale1
queryLocale1() {
dbus-send --system --print-reply=literal --dest=org.freedesktop.locale1 /org/freedesktop/locale1 org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get "string:org.freedesktop.locale1" "string:$1" | awk '{print $2}'
}
# Query whether org.freedesktop.locale1 is available. If it is, try to
# set XKB_DEFAULT_{MODEL,LAYOUT,VARIANT,OPTIONS} accordingly.
if queryLocale1 X11Model >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then
# Do not overwrite existing values. There is no point in setting only some
# of them as then they would not match anymore.
if [ -z "${XKB_DEFAULT_MODEL}" -a -z "${XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT}" -a \
-z "${XKB_DEFAULT_VARIANT}" -a -z "${XKB_DEFAULT_OPTIONS}" ]; then
X11MODEL="$(queryLocale1 X11Model)"
X11LAYOUT="$(queryLocale1 X11Layout)"
X11VARIANT="$(queryLocale1 X11Variant)"
X11OPTIONS="$(queryLocale1 X11Options)"
[ -n "${X11MODEL}" ] && export XKB_DEFAULT_MODEL="${X11MODEL}"
[ -n "${X11LAYOUT}" ] && export XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT="${X11LAYOUT}"
[ -n "${X11VARIANT}" ] && export XKB_DEFAULT_VARIANT="${X11VARIANT}"
[ -n "${X11OPTIONS}" ] && export XKB_DEFAULT_OPTIONS="${X11OPTIONS}"
fi
fi
kmscon "$@"