On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Amir Tal wrote: > 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.
Use WindowMaker and enable Xkb support (I don't remember exactly how now, but it is possible also to do that through the configuration interface.) KDE's current keyboard support makes it relatively expensive to change the layout, and therefore changing the layout each time the cursor moves a window is probably too expensive. > > > > 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... Make the scroll lock led remind you that: setxkbmap -options grp_led:scroll -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
