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I need the fbxkb keyboard indicator applet, but as it is not available as a slackBuild, I tried to roll my own package using src2pkg that seems to fail compiling under Slackware 14.1. While I have stumbled upon a SLKBUILD that presumably builds under Salix (a Slackware spin-off), I have no experience "translating" this into a proper slackBuild, so I'd like to ask if somebody could jump-in to help out with this.
Use the SlackBuild that aaditya pointed you to. As a side note you could install slkbuild to use SLKBUILD scripts directly (i.e. without converting them to SlackBuilds first).
Thank you for the suggestion, but I'd like to avoid using the xfce-xkb-plugin as I haven't been able to make it honor both its own settings and some additional ones as, for example, disabling CAPS LOCK, and defining a level 3 switch (previously set via 90-keyboard-layout.conf). Therefore I have now settled with a setup where all the needed keyboard settings are passed via setxkbmap and a minimal indicator jujst to display the active keyboard layout. The indicator I'm using now is xxkb, but as it crashes at random intervals I decided to give fbxkb a try. Yes, I know about qxkb, but I try to stay GTK-only whenever possible
Thanks a lot, mancha! I just tried to use the SLKBUILD as ruario suggested, but the source didn't compile due to an error. I was about to post it here to get some guidance, but your slackBuild worked without a problem!
Thank you for the suggestion, but I'd like to avoid using the xfce-xkb-plugin as I haven't been able to make it honor both its own settings and some additional ones as, for example, disabling CAPS LOCK, and defining a level 3 switch (previously set via 90-keyboard-layout.conf).
The development branch of Xfce4 Setttings Manager (4.11) has more detailed xkb options in the "Keyboard" applet. I haven't tested it myself, but saw on a friend's screenshot. It looks like it might finally remove the need for external tools (and xkb plugin).
The development branch of Xfce4 Settings Manager (4.11) has more detailed xkb options in the "Keyboard" applet. I haven't tested it myself, but saw on a friend's screenshot. It looks like it might finally remove the need for external tools (and xkb plugin).
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