Re: Switching keyboard language with Ctrl+Shift in the KDE

[Anton Liaukevich <anthonyl@uvaga.by>]

Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Thu,17.Jul.08, 19:52:32, Anton Liaukevich wrote:
> > I want to use "Russia" & "USA" keyboard layouts and switch them with
> > Ctrl+Shift. I had added "Russia" & "USA" to active layouts so that I can
> >  switch them with left-mouse-click in the tray. But I hadn't be able to
> > find option for layout switching in "Keyboard Shortcuts" (excepting for
> > "Switch to Next Keyboard Layout") applet of KDE Control Center.
> >
> > For now I selected only "Russian" layout but turned on the checkbox
> > "Include lation layout" so that command for xkb became:
> > "setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout ru,us" and turned on the checkbox
> > "Ctrl+Shift change layout" in "Xkb Options" tab. After it I has been
> > able to switch language with Ctrl+Shift. Unfortunately, now I can't see
> > current language in the tray that is very inconvenient.
>
> I'm not familiar with KDE, but you should be able to achieve the same by 
> using 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg'. At the question about additional 
> options for the keyboard put:
>
> grp:ctrl_shift_toggle
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
Hello, Andrei!

I have done that you had advised me, then added 'Russia' & 'USA' to 
active layouts of 'Keyboard Layout' applet of KDE Control Center. 
Unfortunately, language switching hasn't begun to work.

Settings of my keyboard in xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc104"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
        Option          "XkbOptions"    "grp:ctrl_shift_toggle"
EndSection