[xmonad] per-window keyboard layouts

[wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu]

Nice work, this looks like something I myself would find quite useful!  
This seems like the perfect kind of thing for xmonad-extras, a sort of  
"no-man's land" for extensions that are hard to compile for one reason  
or another.
~d

Quoting Konstantin Sobolev <konstantin.sobolev at gmail.com>:

> Hi all,
>
> I made a layout modifier that saves per-window keyboard layouts and restores
> them on focus changes. Quite handy when working with several keyboard
> layouts as there's no external program which provides this functionality AND
> works with XMonad: kkbswitch is abandoned, xxkb fails to detect focus
> changes correctly.
>
> So here it is: http://hpaste.org/fastcgi/hpaste.fcgi/view?id=24371
>
> However I'm not sure if I should send it to contrib: it heavily depends on
> FFI and requires X header files to compile.
>
> Usage:
> either drop as XKBLayout.hsc in contrib/XMonad/Layout , add to
> xmonad-contrib.cabal and rebuild
> Or put into ~/.xmonad/lib/XMonad/Layout as XKBLayout.hsc and run through
> hsc2hs
> Then follow instructions from the header. Basically just import and add to
> the layout hook.
>
> xxkb can still be used as an indicator
>