Re: Keyboard Layout Switcher applet

[Breda McColgan <Breda McColgan Sun COM>]

Kevin Vandersloot wrote:

> Hi Breda.
>
> On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 10:20, Breda McColgan wrote:
> > Hi Sergey,
> >
> > thank you for your mail :)
> >
> > See my comments embedded below.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Breda.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > The BAD thing (not for you personally, mostly for gnome) is that
> > > fallback gkb-new is not really changed since gnome 2.4 (even the flags
> > > are not removed!). About the run-time switch, look at gnome-applets/
> > > gswitchit/switch.c. There is CheckXKB function which you can modify to
> > > return some constant (false or true).
> >
> > I inserted the line "have_xkb = FALSE;" before the line "return have_xkb" in
> > gnome-applets/gswitchit/switch.c, and then reran the configure, make, and make
> > install commands. I still see only the Keyboard Indicator applet in the panel,
> > even after I reboot my machine.
> >
> > I then changed "have_xkb = FALSE" to "have_xkb = TRUE;" before the line "return
> > have_xkb" in gnome-applets/gswitchit/switch.c, and then reran the configure,
> > make, and make install commands. I still see only the Keyboard Indicator applet
> > in the panel, even after I reboot my machine.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
>
> You will still see "Keyboard Indicator" listed in the applets menu no
> matter what. The idea is that when you choose "Keyboard Indicator", it
> will place either gswitchit or gkb on the panel.
>
> So in your case you want have_xkb=FALSE and then compile/install, and
> right click on the panel and choose Keyboard Indicator. You should then
> see gkb on the panel.
>
> Regards,
> Kevin
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Breda.
> >

Thanks for your help, Kevin -- I've successfully added the older applet to my panel
now :)

Regards,
Breda.