Easy keyboard switching

Hi, I have arch with lxde, and I am trying to switch to dvorak keyboard.
Is there a simple easy way of switching keyboard layout, that does not require manually editing xorg files and restarting the x server?
I was hoping I could use the "Keyboard layout swicher" in the lxpanel, but I don't know how to add (or where I should) a new keyboard layout with dvorak variant.
Thanks to anyone who has some advice for me.
PS: Sorry if my English is bad, I try the best I can.

I use a bash script called by a launcher on my panel:
if setxkbmap -query |grep -q "us$"
then
setxkbmap carpalx
else
setxkbmap us
fi
I also have some aliases:
alias asdf='setxkbmap carpalx'
alias dstn='setxkbmap us'
(asdf are left hand home keys in us layout, dstn are left hand home keys in carpalx layout)
Of course, now I've fully switched to carpalx I really need to make it the default.
OT> Have you looked into the Colemak layout? It is considered to be the best of the 'established' alternatives (for english anyway) among the kb optimizing community:
CarpalX
The Keyboard Layout Project
Last edited by alphaniner (2012-01-23 14:37:50)

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