Re: Knowing keyboard layout

Reply: Fernando_Apesteguía : "Re: Knowing keyboard layout"
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From: Jesús_Daniel_Colmenares_Oviedo <dtxdf_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:45:12 UTC

Hi,

On 11/26/25 17:37, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Is there a way to know from a script what keyboard layout is currently 
> in use?
> I use setxkbmap to switch between different layouts, but I don't know 
> how to actually query about the current one in use.
>
> TIA

Use -print flag:

```

$ setxkbmap -print
xkb_keymap {
         xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
         xkb_types     { include "complete"      };
         xkb_compat    { include "complete"      };
         xkb_symbols   { include "pc+es+inet(evdev)"     };
         xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc104)"     };
};

```