Detect keyboard layout in *nix in Python

Question

I am using pykeylogger and want to extend it a little bit by adding information about current keyboard layout selected (right now you know from log what buttons are pressed assuming US qwerty).

For windows system it is looks like:

def get_locale(self):
        if os.name == 'nt':
            w = user32.GetForegroundWindow() 
            tid = user32.GetWindowThreadProcessId(w, 0) 
            return hex(user32.GetKeyboardLayout(tid))

to get hex code of layout (like 0x409409) that is fine for me as I basically want to distinguish one layout from another.

I would appreciate if you give me a solution for posix (for example ubuntu) system.

Answer 1

setxkbmap -print

xkb_keymap {
xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
xkb_types     { include "complete"  };
xkb_compat    { include "complete"  };
xkb_symbols   { include "pc+gb+gr(simple):2+inet(evdev)+terminate(ctrl_alt_bksp)"   };
xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc105)" };
};

xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };

xkb_symbols { include "pc+gb+ gr (simple):2+inet(evdev)+terminate(ctrl_alt_bksp)" };