Layout module doesn't handle multiple layouts properly

I’m currently using bumblebee with the following Xorg configuration:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "system-keyboard"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        Option "XkbLayout" "us,ara"
        Option "XkbVariant" ",qwerty_digits"
        Option "XkbOptions" "caps:swapescape"
EndSection

The layout module shows as follows:

It should detect and display the active layout(s) and allow switching between them as is the case in gnome-panel, for example.

[hcpl]

@mahmoudhossam @tobi-wan-kenobi xkbgroup 0.2.0 released, please check it out!

[RobinVogel]

I just spent some time playing around with this issue.

What happened in my setup is that by using this line exec --no-startup-id setxkbmap -layout "fr,us,ru" -option "grp:alt_shift_toggle" in my .config/i3/config, when I switch the layout, the keymap changes but the setxkbmap -query still gives out the layout fr,us,ru.

I solved this locally by creating a script that changes the layout (fr,us,ru then us,ru,fr, etc…) instead of using the option grp:alt_shift_toggle above. And I use:

exec --no-startup-id setxkbmap -layout "fr,us,ru"
bindsym $mod2+space exec "~/Documents/i3/change_layout.sh"

where change layout is:

#!/bin/bash
arr_layouts=$(setxkbmap -query | grep "^layout:" | sed "s/layout:\s *\([a-z,]*\)/\1/g")
IFS="," read -a arr_layouts <<< $arr_layouts
n_layouts=${#arr_layouts[@]}
new_layout=$(for ((i=1; i<=$n_layouts-1; i++)); do printf ${arr_layouts[$i]}","; done)${arr_layouts[0]}
setxkbmap $new_layout

I’m sorry I don’t have a more thorough insight on this. Is there a better solution ?