Re: keyboard layout

[Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>]

On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 02:38:49PM +0400 or thereabouts, Serguey Kolesov wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> English is not my native language, so I have to use two different alphabets
> while working with computer. What is the best way to switch between keyboard
> layouts in GNOME?

There are (at least) two ways to do it in GNOME, and there are several
more ways to do it with X in non-GNOME-specific ways.

There is a little applet for it called GKB International Keyboard which
comes in the gnome-applets package. I haven't used it for ages. The
last time I used it, I had a choice of just US and Hungarian layouts,
and I ended up with a Hungarian keyboard by accident...

There is gswitchit, which has a webpage at sourceforge (doesn't everything?).
You may find that particularly helpful because your address has .ru at
the end, and the examples on that page involve Russian keyboard layout :)
http://gswitchit.sourceforge.net/ 

It's actually all handled by X: the GNOME applets are simply easier to 
use that the rather complicated syntax X expects. (If you're really
curious, the details are in 'man xmodmap'. Complete, but complicated!)
An older program which simplified the process for X is called xkeycaps, 
and it absolutely rocks. http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/ is its address. It 
has every keyboard layout under the sun.

However, I think it's for setting your keyboard up rather than for
quickly switching between the two, so you might find the GNOME applets
better for switching. Especially the details at the gswitchit site :)

Telsa