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Re: X keyboard layout



Hi,

* Sebastian Cla?en <clse0001@hsnr.de> [030519 18:45]:
> Hi list...
> 
> I've got a german keyboard and got running XFree86 4.2.1.1. I've
> configured the german keyboard layout via debconf and it's working fine.
> 
> Now, sometimes I have to type text in Czech and therefor i wanna change
> the keyboard layout only for one program (AbiWord or openoffice) for
> example. I've tried "export LANG=cs_CZ ; abiword" that changes the
> language of the program itself but not the keyboard layout.
> 
> My question: Is there any way to change the keyboard layout while
> running X? Or is the only way to do this to reconfigure and restart the
> whole X-Server?

There are a few ways to switch keyboards on the fly. The way I've used
in the past is a gnome applet. But I'm sure there are others.

apt-cache search keyboard switch, returns a few likely candidates.

Cheers,

Nick.

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Linux twofish 2.4.20-looxt93c7 #1 Thu May 15 18:07:35 JST 2003



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