Re: Where is the Xorg.conf - to setup XKB layouts on Squeeze?
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 06:39:03PM +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
> There are a variety of ways to *switch* keymaps within X and most
> desktop environments provide their own tools to do so.
> (gnome-keyboard-properties for example), but you can always use a tool
> such as "setxkbmap" to switch to a different keymap without the need to
> run "gnome-settings-daemon" (or other applicable DE daemons/tools). It is
> fairly easy to define hotkeys that trigger different "setxkbmap"
> commands in most window managers.
setxkbmap *defines* the layouts. Using it to *switch* between layouts is
broken. IIRC KDE's default switcher was once broken in that sense.
Most keyboard switchers just switch between the existing layouts.
Alt-Shift and such are handled by X.
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