Re: keyboard layout

[San Segkhoonthod <sans webzone net>]

I usually use Thai/English and I can switch between two languages using Alt+Left
Shift to english and Alt+Right Shift to thai. I also configured the toggled key to

Alt+Ctrl (Actually it can be configured to other limited combination of keys such
as Ctrl+Shift).  All these are done only in XF86Setup and no need to use xmodmap.
I don't know if Xfree86 support your language's keyboad layout or not.
Fortunetely, it support thai keyboard.

I have a friend that use WindowMaker that can show keyboard status and allow to
set toggle key.  But I never use WindowMaker, so I can't tell. I use sawmiill and
can't find anywhere that show keyboard status.

There are other problems related to thai's complexity such as display thai font,
sorting, and word separation (there is no space between words in thai) that make
most of the program don't work well in thai (and also other languages, I guess).
I hope that most of these problem will be resolved in pango.

san
Telsa Gwynne wrote:

> 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
>
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