Carillon 1.0.2

Ultra simple keyboard layout controller

Carillon is a simple GTK3 application for switching your keyboard layout. If offers a basic systray icon and menu for switching between a set defined manually.

I created this because there aren’t that many applications like this out there for light desktop environments such as Openbox et al.

Quick Start

This assumes you have a modern Python installation available (Python 2.7+ or 3.4+). To install, get via pip:

$ pip install carillon

Now run the command carillon.

Configuration

Carillon looks for a YAML configuration file named default.yml in a number of locations and uses the first match:

• current working directory

• XDG config directory e.g. ~/.config/carillon

• /etc/carillon/conf.d

• /etc/carillon

• directory of package install

This YAML file defines a map of possible keyboard layouts and the selected layout. For example:

---
# map of keyboard layouts with unique key name for each
keyboards:
  # Irish keyboard with Macintosh variant
  en_mac_ie:
    name: English Mac (IE)
    icon: ie.png
    variant: mac
    model: pc105
    layout: gb
  # International US English layout
  en_us:
    name: English (US)
    icon: us.png
    model: pc105
    layout: us

# Default selected on startup is Irish keyboard
selected: en_mac_ie