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drakosha

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Registered: 2006-01-03

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unable to switch language with X

I'm using XFCE. I just noticed, i'm not able to change keyboard language any more. If i do "setxkbmap us" or "setxkbmap ru" or "setxkbmap il" - it works, however pressing alt-alt does not.
Here's my xorg.conf: (i tried both with driver=keyboard and driver=kbd, the result is the same)

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
#    Driver "keyboard"
    Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option "XkbLayout" "us,ru,il"
    Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alts_toggle"
#    Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin,grp:alt_shift_toggle"
#    Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin,grp:alts_toggle"
#    Option "XkbVariant" ",winkeys,"
EndSection

Thanks a lot!

daf666

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Registered: 2007-04-08

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Re: unable to switch language with X

I dont like the different DE's way of changing layouts.. xorg does it best for me... the following works great

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option      "CoreKeyboard"
    Option      "XkbRules"      "xorg"
    Option      "XkbOptions" "grp:win_switch,grp:alt_shift_toggle"
    Option      "XkbLayout" "us,il"
EndSection

drakosha

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Registered: 2006-01-03

Posts: 253

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Re: unable to switch language with X

This works, using Alt-Shift. However Alt-Alt still does not work.