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4 years ago Hi! I would like to keep gxkb as simple as possible. But I can suggest to take a look at xkbmon+xkb-switch utils. If your window manager supports lua-scripting, you may use these tools to get a list of available keyboard layouts, current keyboard layout and switch keyboard layout. And gxkb can work as usual in order to remember keyboard layouts by application/window.
This is a feature request. It would be awesome if there was some way to use gxkb other than clicking or scrolling on the applet. What I have in mind are either signals sent to the applet to either switch to the next layout or open the menu, or a cli option to do just that. Or implement a dbus interface. Either way it would allow external tools to interact with gxkb and you could for example to a keybind that reproduces the layout switcher on windows.