Language blocklet

This is a blocklet, which displays an active keyboard layout. It also supports layout switching.

Requirements

• Font Awesome 4.7: aur
• xkb-switch.

Installation

1. Copy language file to your blocklets directory (/usr/lib/i3blocks, in my case).

sudo cp language /usr/lib/i3blocks

2. Add language configuration block to your i3blocks.conf file:

[language]
interval=once
signal=8
markup=pango

3. Add a keyboard shortcut for sending a signal to i3blocks. Example string for Alt+Shift combination in i3:

bindcode Mod1+50 exec --no-startup-id pkill -RTMIN+8 i3blocks