Re: X keyboard layout
The way I do it is by having several xmodmaps (say, xmodmap-spanish,
xmodmap-customized, xmodmap-whatever) in your space, and then loading them
as needed from the command prompt (open a samll xterm in X)
$ xmodmap xmodmap-customized (or anyother one)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Hastings" <hastings@bmail.kek.jp>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 6:11 AM
Subject: 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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