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Dheart

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-10-26

Posts: 956

Keyboard layout changing question

I use three different keyboard layouts: English, Spanish and Bulgarian. Back in Windows I added Spanish as a variant of English and used ctrl + shift to change English/Bulgarian and alt + shift to change English/Spanish. Now when I moved to linux I want to setup my layouts in a similar way. Is there any way to do it?

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majikstreet

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Registered: 2006-07-31

Posts: 96

Re: Keyboard layout changing question

Do you use gnome? If you do, you can just go to System>>Preferences>>Keyboard and click on the Layouts tab. You can then add layouts from there. In the Layout Options tab, under the Group Shift/Lock behaviour section, you can select how you want to be able to change groups.. But, I'm not sure if you can make it so that one sequence changes it from english to bulgarian and one changes it from english to spanish... I do know that you can have say alt+shift have it cycle through english, bulgarian, and english.. You can also right click on the panel, hit add to panel, find Keyboard Indicator, and hit add.. That will add a little thing that says what keyboard layout you are using, and you can just click on it to change to another one..

If you don't use gnome I'm afraid I can't help you...

Hope that helps

majikstreet

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Dheart

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-10-26

Posts: 956

Re: Keyboard layout changing question

I've set up my xorg.conf and my gnome keyboard settings so that ctrl + shift cycles between the three layouts but I don't feel confortable with that and so often remove spanish and add it when I need it. Also clicking on the panel is not an option for me. Although I use that tool for the gnome panel it is very uncorfortable to use it to change layouts.

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