Unable to switch between English and Hebrew

michaely · 07-18-2004, 04:42 AM

Hi all, I'm using Slackware 10 for a few days now and I'm generaly satisfied with it

Now, I wanted to add Hebrew writing support to it, so this is how part of my xorg.conf looks like now:

Code:

Option "XkbLayout" "us,il"
Option "KxbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"

But from some reason, I cannot switch between languages. In a matter of fact, I did select the hebrew locales during the installation (the regular ISO one and the UTF unicode one).

What should I do?

mdg · 07-18-2004, 07:36 AM

Looks like you're missing part of the switching option. Mine looks like this:

Code:

     
 Option     "XkbLayout"     "us,il" 
 Option     "XkbOptions"    "grp:switch,grp:alt_shift_toggle"

michaely · 07-18-2004, 08:59 AM

It's just that I've read how to do it in some old HOWTO that mentioned that adding "grp:switch" is only necessery for older versions of XFree86 (less than 4.3), then again, Xorg is more XF864.3 than 4.4, so it probably makes sense.

I'll give it a go, thanks.