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I want to create a bash script that adds the "French (Canada)" keyboard layout. In addition, I would like to set Alt+Shift as the keys used to change layout.

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You have setxkbmap to change the keyboard layout. For the "French (Canada)" layout, it's setxkbmap fr-legacy (I find it with cat /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst | grep fr)

So you can put that in a bash script.

And to add a shortcut, you can add it in Keyboard → Shortcut (in the System configuration board).

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  • Is there a way to add the shortcut via command-line?
    – Gradient
    Feb 4, 2013 at 6:38
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    From the Ubuntu wiki : gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-windows "['<Alt>Tab']" to make Alt-Tab the shortcut to switch windows for instance. And you will have to edit a file in /usr/share/gnome-control-center/keybindings/ to add your action.
    – Dorian
    Feb 5, 2013 at 20:04

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