Advanced Keyboard Daemon

Advanced Keyboard Daemon is a small and efficient keyboard daemon for X11 written in C++17.

Content

• Advanced Keyboard Daemon
  • Content
  • Features
  • Dependencies
  • Installation
    • Arch Linux, Manjaro, Chakra etc.
    • Manual building

Features

• Remember different keyboard layouts and groups for each window.
• Switch layouts by shortcut.
• Layout configuration.
• Print group to stdout on change (or just once and exit).
• Low memory consumption (~350 KB).

Read man akd for more information or pass -h / --help as argument.

Note: We use X11 naming convention: group is the keyboard language, layout is the set of languages.

Dependencies

Arch Linux: boost cmake libx11

Installation

Arch Linux, Manjaro, Chakra etc.

📦 Stable version in AUR

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/akd.git
cd akd
makepkg -si

Manual building

You can build Advanced Keyboard Daemon by using the following commands:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
cmake --build .

You will then get a binary named akd.

Tips

i3bar keyboard layout indicator

You can use example scripts in contrib/ directory to add a keyboard layout indicator to your i3bar, if you use i3status as the status generator. For more information on how they work refer to i3status docs.

Also, the scripts should be easily adaptable for other text-based status generators.