Keyboard layout switching problem

[Dotan Cohen]

On 20/02/07, Dmitrij Ilchenko <idtest at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I have the same problem in both KDE and GNOME. and even in
> kdm/gdm without running any desktop environment. I don't want to use
> internal KDE or GNOME keyboard shortcuts. I can use xorg config to
> specify the shortcut to switch layouts and xneur to display current
> layout.
> Am i missing something in xorg.conf? I was using Debian Sarge for a
> while, and with this config:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier     "Generic Keyboard"
>     Driver         "kbd"
>     Option         "CoreKeyboard"
>     Option         "XkbRules" "xfree86"
>     Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
>     Option         "XkbLayout" "us,ru(winkeys),ua(winkeys)"
>     Option         "XkbOptions" "grp:ctrl_shift_toggle"
> EndSection
>
> layout switching worked perfectly.
>
> P.S. If in doubt about my keyboard, in console it works perfect and
> layouts are switched through pressing Ctrl+Shift.
>

Any reason why you don't want to use Gnome/KDE's built-in keyboard
manager? Note that both desktops are (despite the freedesktop
initiative) growing away from dependence on features of X. So using X
features in Gnome and KDE is becoming more of a problem. I had an
issue with this in regard to sticky keys, which I need. Now I just use
KDE's accessability's sticky key feature.

Side note: I'd like to redefine certain non-english keyboard shortcuts
to their english equivelents. So if I'm in a Hebrew loayout I can hit
CTRL-V and have it paste, even though the V key is now serving as the
ה character. Do you know how to do that?

Dotan Cohen

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