Keyboard limit?

[Chris Mohler]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Rick <rufus at hanadari.net> wrote:
> Rick wrote:
>> It seems that Ubuntu (but not Kubuntu) limits the number of keyboards to
>> four. SCIM allows for only some leeway with more complex writing
>> systems. How can I circumvent this restriction?
>>
>> Rick
>>
>>
> Come on. Don't tell me that no one out there ever needs more than four
> keyboards. I regularly work in UK and US English, Hebrew, French, German
> and PR Chinese. It would be fine if SCIM would handle the Chinese, but
> then I must have a UK English keyboard as default in order that the
> dates be expressed day - month - year. These evident absurdities must
> have a logical explanation. Just tell me that I'm doing something wrong,
> and I'll correct my ways. In Windows (You should excuse me for
> mentioning it!) I have also Russian, Portuguese and Arabic on board.

Hmm - I have no idea why it's limited to four - you should probably
file a bug.  In the meantime, open a terminal and run 'gconf-editor'.
Browse to this key:
/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd

Then double-click "layouts" and add your layouts to the list.  The
trick is going to be figuring out the two-letter layout codes.  I
would probably turn on/off layouts in the GUI preferences and write
down the codes as they appear in gconf-editor - then close the GUI
tool and punch the entire list into gconf-editor.

HTH,
Chris