How to Display the Current Keyboard Layout

I often switch between English and Greek layouts and this has been a minor annoyance for a while. Your question pushed me to solve it, so thanks!

I found a program that can do this: xbindkeys. The proceedure I followed (adapted from here) was:

1. Install xbindkeys. On my Debian this is done with

    sudo apt-get install xbindkeys
   

You should also be able to install easily enough with the equivalent yum install or pacman -S or whatever commands.

2. Create the default settings file:

    xbindkeys --defaults > ~/.xbindkeysrc
   

3. Get the right keycodes for your keys. Run xbindkeys -k and press your desired shortcut. With my keyboard at least (though this should be standard), xbindkeys -k reports that CtrlT is

    m:0x14 + c:28
    Control+Mod2 + t
   

4. Create the relevant shortcut, add these lines to ~/.xbindkeysrc:

    "xterm"
     m:0x14 + c:28
   

5. Run xbindkeys. The shortcut now works even in the Greek layout. To make this permanent, add this to your ~/.Xsession:

    xbindkeys
   

I think the implementation is done in a hurry. See here: (use Google translation of Chrome)

https://www.linux.org.ru/forum/general/12078555

So there are places only reading .lst ignoring base.xml but the information they contain is not identical, and I guess xml is more complete, but not sure.