Changing keyboard layout from terminal on opensuse

Question

I am trying to bind shortcuts for keyboard layouts. For example:

Shift+Alt+1 - change to US layout
Shift+Alt+2 - change to UA layout
Shift+Alt+3 - change to RU layout

instead of change it with Super+Space.

In Ubuntu I used to bind such shortcut to gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources current 1, but in opensuse it doesn't work.

It is possible to do somehow?

You could maybe use `setxkbmap`. http://linux.die.net/man/1/setxkbmap — gdrooid, Dec 30 '15 at 15:40
It didn't work for me, it changed it only in terminal, but not, for example, in browser. And indicator in tray didn't change. — M0sTik, Jan 04 '16 at 14:01
:/ Maybe Gnome is messing with it; it works for me on Openbox. Glad you found a solution. — gdrooid, Jan 04 '16 at 14:04

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 04 '16 at 14:00

I have solved it with little trick.

I created script with such content (for each keyboard layout):

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources sources "[('xkb', 'ru')]" && gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources sources "[('xkb', 'us'), ('xkb', 'ru'), ('xkb', 'ua')]"

And bind custom shortcut that run this script.

This script changes list of layouts, left there only one layout, because of it system change layout, and then I change list of layout to initial state.

Changing keyboard layout from terminal on opensuse

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