Ẅindows 98. A small blue square at the bottom with one click would open a menu and another click would set up 4 or 5 different keyboards.
I looked on Google and it seems that multiple keyboards are not mentioned for Linux.
I have Ubuntu 12.10 set with the American international k'bd and it works just fine but I want 3 or 4 more to switch to by a single click.
I do not want to use the character map as it is slow, awkward and clumsy.
So, is there some Linux distro that allows a menu with several
k'bds like Win 98 or OX 10 Jaguar which was fairly straight forward to set up? I am using now a Gateway GT5032 Media Center edition with an AMD 64 Athlon X2 and an nVIDIA card. This box could be as much as 10 years old maybe.
But I really believe the problem is in the software , not the hardware. That is really what I want ; the name of a distro with a menu. Or some other way to switch quickly
It does not have to be easy, just possible, I am willing to work on this. If I can set up the 3 or 4 keyboard I might ,, just for fun set up the Greek in case I would write a letter in algebra. -- hi --

depends on your distro and how you run your system, but this covers the big players...

XFCE:
http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=5785

KDE:
http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=90854

GNOME:
https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-h...ayouts.html.en

Ubuntu:
http://www.wikihow.com/Change-Keyboard-Layout-in-Ubuntu

terminal:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...ration_in_Xorg


https://www.google.com/search?q=linu...eyboard+layout

http://www.howtoforge.com/changing-l...-distributions

The keyboard tool in your configuration menu will enable you to install extra keyboards, as will the keyboard applet for the panel. You can toggle keyboards by clicking on the applet, or by using a keyboard shortcut. The keyboard configuration tool in the menu may allow you to select this: I use what used to be ScrollLock, for example.

The various desktops I've seen enable you to have up to four drivers, and I've never needed to exceed this, so I don't know if it can be done. You don't need a lot, unless you are using a lot of alphabets, as you can get individual characters with the AltGr key, or with the compose key:
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Accented_Characters

So I have one British driver where AltGr gives things like † ə and another where it gives things like ♈ ☉, while customising Compose enables ɲ or ℞. And then there's Greek.

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to cin_ , that is what I wanted, some names of distros to check out ,,your answer is good; thank you. You listed a bunch.

David McCann , thank you, did not know some of those symbols. Now I know where the schwa symbol is , and those others . The keyboard I now use is the American alternative International which allows the diacriticals for most of the Western European languages but it lacks the mark below the -- a -- and the -- e -- and the accent mark and the dot above the z. I am NOT a linguist but I want a lot of choices. I find the international k´bd so much better than the standard that I will never go back to the standard.. BTW, for some who have not used anything but the standard, the international k´bd that came with Ubuntu 12.10 is so much like the United States International ( Windows ) or the Extended English ( Apple ) that there may be no difference.