Keyword Switcher

I'm to lazy to set my keyboard layout, can't something do it for me?

Overview

A set of scripts to auto select the Keyboard Input Selector on the Macintosh based on which USB keyboard you have plugged in.

Use Case

I'm a dvorak keyboard user who also has hardware based Dvorak keyboards but I don't want to have to constantly switch keyboard layouts to switch between the MacBook keyboard and my external.

Setup

You need to know the name of your keyboard as it is advertised to the USB HID system. One way to do this on the Mac is to run ioreg -p IOUSB and then pick out your keyboard in the list. Try running the command both with and without your keyboard plugged in. For example you may see something like the following:

| +-o Infinity_Ergodox/QMK@14274000  <class AppleUSBDevice, id 0x100061330, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (14 ms), retain 17>

From this the keyboard name can be found to be "Infinity_Ergodox".

Use

Simple run the read.sh script in a terminal. This script is meant to run once and it will loop every 5 seconds. To configure a different keyboard then what is programed into the script, use the -k flag such as like this:

watch bash read.sh -k Infinity_Ergodox

Files

get_keyboard.scpt - read the current keyboard
read.sh - bash script to do all the work
set_keyboard.scpt - set the keyboard using the GUI
test scripts.scpt - will delete

Future

make cron friendly
add help with a -h flag.

jceaser / keyboard_switcher