xfce change keyboard layout

tramni1980 · 07-12-2007, 07:58 AM

Hello! Currently I use kde, but I want to taste xfce as well. In kde I can easily change the keyboard layout since there is such an option in the control centre -> regional and accessibility->keyboard layout. In xfce there is no such an option. I searched this forum and I found this thread http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...eyboard+layout
but it does not say what to do if I want to change the keyboard layout without exiting X. In kde I just click with the mouse on application that changes the layout.

Ilgar · 07-12-2007, 01:58 PM

You can follow the suggestion on that link. Once you list multiple layout in xorg.conf, you can either use the XFCE panel plugin (keyboard layout switcher) or you can define a key in xorg.conf to switch it. I prefer the latter method, here's the relevant part of my xorg.conf (I use Alt+Shift to change language):

Code:

    Option         "XkbLayout" "us,tr"
    Option         "XKbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"