This was observed in 7.2, installation with Russian language and XFree-4 1. Selecting Russian at installation sets Russian keyboard for alpha console but does not set enable Russian for X; layout is US. Actually, IIRC Xkb is disabled ... not quite right for Russian. 2. Setting Russian with DrakConf correctly sets US+Russian keyboard layouts for XFree but does not provide any means to permanently switch between them. Normally this is done using for input device e.g. Options XkbOptions "grp:ctrl_shift_toggle" to enable US/Russian switch with Ctrl-Shift, a la Windows; see rules/xfree86 for possible list. 3. I could not find way to configure alpha console keyboard after installation. DrakConf sets just XFree layout 4. Finally, there is no way to configure keys to switch keyboard layout. Bot alpha/XFree provide several alternatives - Shift-Shift, Alt-Shift, Ctrl-Shift. It would be nice to be able to select between them. TIA -andrej Have a nice DOS! B >>
