Different keyboard layot for every window

answered 2015-04-24 00:05:30 +0000

gurkensalat
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updated 2015-04-26 16:57:09 +0000

As i3convert commented already, you could try this approach; depending on your chat program you need to adjust the class name. This uses the i3subscribe script which I made available some weeks ago:

#!/bin/bash
i3subscribe window | grep window:focus | \
while read -r line; do
    id="$(xprop -root _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW | awk '{print $5}')"
    case "$(xprop -id "$id" WM_CLASS | cut -d\" -f4)" in
        Firefox)        kb=de ;;
        ChatProgram)    kb=ru ;;
        *)              kb=us ;;
    esac
    setxkbmap "$kb"
done

Save, make the script executable and put it into the startup-applications.