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In Unity one can easily switch between keyboard layouts using the keyboard tray icon. There is also the Keyboard menu where one can add/remove/set keyboard layouts.

I can not find any of this functionality in Xubuntu. How can the keyboard layout be switched in this desktop environment?

Thanks.

Update I: details on the xubuntu-desktop package this question refers to:

$ sudo apt-cache show xubuntu-desktop
Package: xubuntu-desktop
Priority: optional
Section: universe/metapackages
Installed-Size: 43
Maintainer: Xubuntu Developers <[email protected]>
Architecture: amd64
Source: xubuntu-meta
Version: 2.152
Depends: [...]
Size: 3790
MD5sum: 26efaa0f16c70a82d216165ba2af4fd4
SHA1: 49c283439314e48d46668e07d65c4a261e9b556a
SHA256: 36e51760324e081988a068aa29de4968a7d050c18bad4128967ffd656c570f3f
Description-en: Xubuntu desktop system
 This package depends on all of the packages in the Xubuntu desktop system
 .
 It is safe to remove this package if some of the desktop system packages are
 not desired.
Description-md5: 25eeb522d88fba23a532953cbbf1638e
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Task: xubuntu-desktop

Update II: The solution proposed for Xubuntu 11.10 is not working with this latest version of Xfce. The xfce4-xkb-plugin package is apparently installed together with xubuntu-desktop.

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Update III: This is no longer an issue on Xubuntu 14.04, a nice tray icon in this latest version allows the user to easily switch between keyboard layouts.

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  • it would be nice also if you could mention what version are you using cuz versions between 12.04 and 13.10 are way different.
    – JoKeR
    Mar 3, 2014 at 15:39
  • You have solution on this link askubuntu.com/questions/63178/…
    – 2707974
    Mar 3, 2014 at 15:51
  • was this environment Xubuntu installation or just xubuntu-desktop on top of ubuntu/unity installation? xubuntu has by default keyboard layout application and status icon since long before 14.04. in your image you search keyboard settings in that default search app (xfce4-appfinder) that does not find the sub-sections of Settings Manager. search for Settings Manager instead to find Keyboard setting. (see that not even in 14.04 you cannot find Keyboard in this way!) to get easy access to Settings Manager contents install synapse launcher
    – user47206
    Nov 19, 2014 at 11:42

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the command 'setxkbpmap' can help

If you want to switch from the belgian azerty to the us qwerty or the opposite, you can do:

  • setxkbpmap us
  • setxkbpmap be

You can also change way more parameter of the keyboard... see man setxkbpmap

(The link given by 2707974 can also help)

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