Originally Posted by
Kisbey
If you don't know your device, start with 1 and work your way up.
Another (better) solution is to use xinput to give you a list of devices:
Code:
~# xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ DualPoint Stick id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Logitech USB Laser Mouse id=14 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Logitech USB Receiver id=15 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Dell WMI hotkeys id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Logitech USB Receiver id=16 [slave keyboard (3)]
You can then use grep or gawk to get the id number. Here is an example:
Code:
setxkbmap -device `xinput list | gawk '/Logitech/&&/keyboard/{match($0,/id=([[:digit:]]+)/,f);print f[1]}'` bg
This looks for the keyboard having Logitech in its name and set its layout to bulgarian
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