xkbind command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

xkbind: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xkbind: command not found

Solutions to xkbind: command not found

How To Fix xkbind: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu xkbind is provided by xkbind package.

xkbind is:

The XkbInd program (X Keyboard Extension Indicator) is a minimal indicator of keyboard layout (XKB group) for the X Window System; it indicates current keyboard layout in the title of top-level windows via prefix to the original string. It also allows to simulate independent keyboard layout for each handled window and it works with most of the window managers, including twm, mwm and fvwm. WARNING: This program assumes the standard X input focus handling, so it will not work with some GUI toolkits.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install xkbind

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install xkbind.

sudo apt -y install xkbind

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install xkbind

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix xkbind command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.