Hi,I'm kind a new to Debian,so this question may seems stupid,but.
I have three keyboard layouts - "us""ru""ua"
How do I set keyboard switching between them?
I have googled some topics about it,but they are so outdated,so I decided to post this stuff here
Here's the KDE control module screens
And now(as I thought) when I press Lctrl+Lshft nothing happends,Layouts won't change not in office,browser or elswhere...
I've tried different key kombos but still just the same
I think I'm missing something,but what?
~ok I've found some small program that was in deb packages http://kkbswitch.sourceforge.net/
But in this kbbswitch I can't add more than one language ....
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Layouts switching
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Re: Layouts switching
there should be an icon in the taskbar that you an click on to change the layout on the fly.
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Re: Layouts switching
Hi, the keyborg layout changer doest come defualt on the task bar...
you just have to go on your top task bar, click on add to taskbar, select "indicator of keybord layout" or someting sound alike (my debian is french, so... a bit different) then you'll have on the taskbar indicating witch keybord you use, just clic on it and it switch!
hope this will help
you just have to go on your top task bar, click on add to taskbar, select "indicator of keybord layout" or someting sound alike (my debian is french, so... a bit different) then you'll have on the taskbar indicating witch keybord you use, just clic on it and it switch!
hope this will help
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Re: Layouts switching
Yes guys,thanks
I had layout changer icon at the taskbar
but it rather uncomfortably every 4-5min I must click on it....
So thing that I actually want to knew: Is there any possible way to set layout change on key combination,such as shift+alt or smth?
I had layout changer icon at the taskbar
but it rather uncomfortably every 4-5min I must click on it....
So thing that I actually want to knew: Is there any possible way to set layout change on key combination,such as shift+alt or smth?
Re: Layouts switching
Hi!Inspirare wrote:Yes guys,thanks
I had layout changer icon at the taskbar
but it rather uncomfortably every 4-5min I must click on it....
So thing that I actually want to knew: Is there any possible way to set layout change on key combination,such as shift+alt or smth?
Same problem here!
Seems like we just ran on a bug!
No matter how hard I tried (from gui or from konsole or editing xorg.conf) I didn't managed to do it.
The only way I found is:
1) Installing debian with the default gnome desktop
2) Installing kde
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su
apt-get install kdm kde-core
Now I have a proper support for switching layouts with keyboard.
Here one can manually edit the menus and remove unneeded references or uninstall gnome.
a) opening synaptic and removing all gnome packages.
b) running
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apt-get autoremove
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apt-get clean
Any comments from more experienced users?
EDIT
1) ooops!
I meant install gnome-core not kde
2) For me, I wasn't able to solve this problem with kde (without installing the gnome-core).
I made a clean gnome installation, and although the gnome gui had problems with setting the led to switch on, on lang change, I edited the xorg.conf and everything is OK now.
Autoinstalling the nvidia drivers corrupts the xorg.conf and everything is failing.
The trick is installing nvidia drivers manually, as described at debian wiki (for avoiding the known bug).
This way, you can't have the nvidia-settings control panel (because it can't save the custom settings), but nvidia driver works OK and alt-shift change the layout and the scroll led is properly gets ON or OFF at layout change.
All kde apps I needed (eg. okular, k3b, kpat etc.), worked OK at gnome, so personally I'll stick to gnome. I may have another look at kde at next stable release.
Greets!!!
EDIT2
Here's my xorg.conf (for switching en<->gr with alt-shift, and scroll lock led as the indicator).
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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us,gr"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp_led:scroll,grp:alt_shift_toggle"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
Last edited by Mad_7 on 2010-02-05 14:12, edited 2 times in total.
Re: Layouts switching
Inspirare wrote:...And now(as I thought) when I press Lctrl+Lshft nothing happends ..
If I am reading your posts correctly , your key combination will not work.Inspirare wrote:... Is there any possible way to set layout change on key combination,such as shift+alt or smth?
Lctrl , Lshft and alt are all modifier keys , they modify another key pressed with them. Most keyboard hardware will not output a key code unless a regular (non modifier) key is pressed with them.