On Monday 22 April 2002 22:17, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 15:11, Amir Tal wrote:
> > this is what i though at first to, but if i open a new session
> > (alt+ctrl+f2) i can type English without changing anything.
>
> Of course, because the active Hebrew keyboard map is active in X, while
> the console remains in English mapping.
>
> Don't forget that the active keyboard map in X11 is global -- not
> per-program like in Windows.

i know. is there a way to make it per program ? it could be SO much more 
comfertible.
>
> e.g. if your keyboard language switching key is Alt-Shift, try
> Alt-shifting while your screen is locked and try again.
>

the problem is that you dont remember what language you are locked on to 
before you get up to grub some coffee and lock your screen ;) .
if you keep a LOT of applications running all the time, then killing X becomes 
a big problem...


> (Yes, I once made that mistake too -- even killed X because of it,
> though on KDE 2)

ouch.....


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