autoxkbmap

Arch package to run setxkbmap (or any other script) when you plug in your USB keyboard.

references

The code is adapted from:

• autorandr
• and usb-keyboard-udev

build

Clone the repo and run

makepkg -i

use

Place a (executable) script under ~/.config/autoxkbmap for example with the following content

#!/usr/bin/env bash

setxkbmap -layout us -variant altgr-intl -option

The script gets executed (if access is granted) every time a keyboard device is plugged in and found by udev.

The logic is as follows

1. udev detects the keyboard
2. udev asks systemd to start the service (autoxkbmap.service) which runs the script /usr/bin/autoxkbmap
3. the service runs the script /usr/bin/autoxkbmap
4. the script iterates over the active X11 sessions
5. for each X11 session the script ~/.config/autoxkbmap is run as the user owning the session

Contribute

Fell free to fork and create pull requests.