Hi!
I work with FC5 and gnome. through the menus preferences, keyboard, I've installed a 2nd layout (bulgarian). But nothing happens. On Suse, I got a small icon on which I can press to switch between layouts. I've looked in accessibility and shortcuts, but didn't see anything dealing with keyboard.
what did I forget?

thanks.

I found this hint here:

For GNOME, you can add the keyboard switching applet to the panel by right-clicking on a blank area of the panel, and then choosing Add to Panel -> Utility -> Keyboard Layout Switcher. Bring up the preferences dialog by right-clicking on the applet and choosing Preferences. Typically, only the default keyboard will be shown the first time. Click on the Add button at the top right, select Oriya -> India -> Oriya xkb keymap, and click Add followed by Close to add the Oriya Inscript keymap. By default, this uses the layout in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/ori, i.e., the old Karunakar layout. So, in order to use the ori_inscript xkb map, highlight the Oriya xkb map entry, and click Properties to modify it. This brings up a dialog window in which you should replace `setxkbmap ori' with `setxkbmap ori_inscript -option "lv3:switch"' for the Command string. Close all dialog windows. Now, you can switch through all keymaps added to the Keyboard Layout Switcher by clicking on the applet, or by pressing Alt+Shift. The current keyboard layout is indicated by the flag and/or label used by the applet. While this makes it convenient to enter multi-lingual text, it is possible to get confused if there are a large number of keyboards added to the switcher. SOURCE

thanks for the answer.
the first part worked: now I have the label on the panel, but nothing happens when I click on it. I didn't quite understand your explanations regarding the second part.
First of all, I do not have the directory Here is what I have:
Then I do not have properties for the layout.
are you talking about FC5?

Can't anyone help me? I'm still stuck und couldn't find anything on internet that helps me.