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I want to toggle different keyboard types on my Fedora Core 2 with
some simple keyboard shortcuts. But I can't find out how.
It's too much to do System settings -> keyboard -> (password) ->
change keyboard, every time I want to change to different languages.
KDE seems to have such a function (I use Gnome, but I
don't mind use KDE in stead if it's something Gnome cannot) but under
Kcontrol -> Regional accessibility -> keyboard layout
there is no keyboard layout to choose. (of course, I checked 'Enable
Keyboard layout')
I have naturally installed FC2 with all the languages I want to use.
I'm heaving the same problem with keyboard layout in FC2 There are other posts in this forum about that and I posted this problem too...the best option for me [that I found here] was to use this command: "setxkbmap us" or "setxkbmap de" or "setxkbmap it". Maybe someone else can help more.
That with setxkbmap... is definitely better than clicking 4 times + password!
Thanks!
Still, it would be great if anyone knows how to change layouts by
simple keyboard shortcuts. Hard to believe that all FC2 users using
more than 1 language are doing all the clickings or setxkbmap...
if you can get the keymap textfiles, you can use xmodmap to toggle between diff't keyboard layouts.
assuming that you have a qwerty keyboard and that you want to go back to it at some point:
xmodmap -pke > qwerty
this pipes the output of xmodmap into a text file called 'qwerty'
now, download the keymaps for whatever you wish to use (for example, a dvorak layout).
assuming this is in a file called 'dvorak', then you type:
Thanks for your advise! but if i understand it correctly, it makes only another type of keyboard available, isn't it?
Maybe I didn't make it clear, but I have already all the keyboard types I want in my pc and I can change it, if i want.
I wanted to ask how I can toggle between those keyboard types by simple keyboard shortcuts,
without entering system settings...
I'm a newbie, (have installed FC2 4days ago and this is my first linux working) so if i misunderstand
something, my apology.
I'm in the same boat, my wife is a qwerty touch typist and I use Dvorak, in Win. XP I hit control /shift and the kb changes. That's what we need in Linux, surely there must be a way?
Thanks n n, J, Now we are getting somewhere, all we need now is the entries for Dvorak and US english.
You guys are really something, is there anything you don't know?
Look in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols directory. There should be rules for dvorak and en_US keymaps. I have those two files.
If you use Xorg then you should put the following in your xorg.conf file:
Code:
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105" # or pc102 or whichever you have
Option "XkbLayout" "en_US,dvorak" # or dvorak,en_US
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
If you use Xfree86 consult other people on the forum to help you with differences.
Could this problem be caused by the kernel options? I just compiled a new kernel on my box and enabled there some language support...now I can add keyboard layots in control center
Gnome 2.6
I opened "keyboard preferences" and in the "layouts" tab i added Greek, after English us. Then in the panel i added utility-->keyboard indicator. A box appeared with the indication us. When i clicked on it, it changed to Grc (probably Greek), but when i tried to write anything it changed back to English and instead of Greek i wrote English. When i opened "keyboard preferences" and i pressed the button "up", Greek moved up, but exactly the opposite happened. When i changed the indicator and tried to write English, the indicator changed back to Greek and i wrote Greek instead of English. What can i do?
Last edited by kpachopoulos; 10-08-2004 at 07:09 AM.
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