Grouped keyboard layouts or cycle the last two (Mint 19)

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I have multiple keyboard layouts (ru,cz,en). Is there any possibility to group layouts and switch between groups? Let's say group 1 is ru only, group 2 is en+cz and switch between groups via alt+shift and switch within a group via ctrl+shift (en/cz). It also would be ok to cycle the last two layouts (like ubuntu layout-switch), but i didn't found that option in xkb. I've found several bash scripts but none of them worked in Mint 19 (cycling the last two layouts). Cycling all three layouts all the time is just pure pain...

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Well, ok, since it's linux, so... help yourself solution here with cycling 2 keyboard layouts is:

1. Install xkb-switch (https://github.com/ierton/xkb-switch)

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sudo apt install cmake libxkbfile-dev build-essential

git clone https://github.com/ierton/xkb-switch.git

cd xkb-switch

mkdir build && cd build

cmake ..

make

sudo make install

sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libxkbswitch.so.1 /usr/lib/libxkbswitch.so.1

2. Make bash script

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sudo vim /usr/local/bin/xkb-toggle-en-ru

Place this inside (modify for your needs):

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#!/bin/bash
LANG1="us"
LANG2="ru"
CURRENT_LANG=$(xkb-switch)
if [ "$CURRENT_LANG" = $LANG1 ]; then
    xkb-switch -s $LANG2
else
   xkb-switch -s $LANG1
fi

3. Make script executable

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sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/xkb-toggle-en-ru 

4. Test

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xkb-toggle-en-ru

It should toggle your layouts

5. Go to keyboard settings and change Alt+Shift toggling to anything else (e.g. Shift+CapsLock)

6. Make new shortcut in keyboard settings with command "xkb-toggle-en-ru" and assign Alt+Shift to it.

Done.