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dwm and multiple keyboard layouts

Few days ago I had the occasion to get a quite old but really robust keyboard. I guess it's from the 90's, but it still have a really wonderful touch and works very very well.

Since it has an Italian layout, I took some time to configure dwm for switching between American and Italian layouts.

I just added the following lines to the config.h file:

        { MODKEY|ShiftMask|ControlMask, XK_i, spawn, "exec setxkbmap it" }, \
        { MODKEY|ShiftMask|ControlMask, XK_u, spawn, "exec setxkbmap us" }, \

and recompilied dwm. It works flawlessly.