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Created February 15, 2026 20:45
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KDE Plasma lockscreen script - always switch keyboard to English (US) on locking for easy password prompts for multilingual keyboards
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#!/bin/bash
dbus-monitor --profile --session "type='signal',interface='org.kde.screensaver',path='/ScreenSaver',member='AboutToLock'" |
while read -r line; do
qdbus6 org.kde.keyboard /Layouts setLayout 0
#echo "switching"
done
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n1ret commented Mar 24, 2026

Thanks! I changed this a bit. Here's a version without the extra startup triggers:

#!/bin/bash
dbus-monitor --profile --session "type='signal',interface='org.kde.screensaver',path='/ScreenSaver',member='AboutToLock'" |
  grep --line-buffered "org.kde" |
  while read -r _; do
    qdbus6 org.kde.keyboard /Layouts setLayout 0 >/dev/null
  done

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