command line retrieve list of kbd layouts and variants (to use with setxkbmap)

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 07/27/12 08:50 AM, Giuseppe Penone wrote:
> the problem of parsing /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.xml is that the location of
> the file may vary from distribution to distribution
> according to the prefix.

I think /usr/share/X11/xkb/ is fairly common, and newer distros should have
.pc files so you can do one of these:
	
pkg-config --variable=xkbconfigdir xkbcomp
pkg-config --variable=xkb_base xkeyboard-config

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