awesome-kbd.lua

-- Keyboard layout switching
kbdcfg = {
  cmd = "setxkbmap",
  layout = { "us", "cz -variant qwerty" },
  current = 1,
  widget = widget({ type = "textbox", align = "right" })
}
kbdcfg.switch = function()
  kbdcfg.current = kbdcfg.current % #(kbdcfg.layout) + 1
  local t = " " .. kbdcfg.layout[kbdcfg.current] .. " "
  kbdcfg.widget.text = t:gsub('%s%-variant%s', ':')
  os.execute(kbdcfg.cmd .. t)
end
kbdcfg.widget.text = " " .. kbdcfg.layout[kbdcfg.current] .. " "
-- Mouse bindings
kbdcfg.widget:buttons(awful.util.table.join(awful.button({}, 1, function() kbdcfg.switch() end)))

-- {{{ Key bindings (use xev)
globalkeys = awful.util.table.join(
...
awful.key({ ctrlkey, altkey }, "k", function() kbdcfg.switch() end),
...
)