On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 05:41:00PM +0300, Herouth Maoz wrote: > Quoting Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > OTOH, if you switch to Hebrew, and then use the X's group switching > > shortcut to change to English, the kxkb tray indicator stays in Hebrew > > mode saying you are using the Hebrew layout which means diddly squat to > > what language you are actually typing. > > I personally find this annoying.
Which is a bug of kxkb. Any decent keyboard indicator will indicate such a change. With kxkb you're doomed to work with it and it alone rather than with the standard way. > > I really like the kxkb behavior. Of doing extra unnecessary work just to change the keyoard layout becasue they were too lazy to adapt to the X way? > I don't switch to English using the arcane X > method. I mapped the keyboard switching to an easily-accessible function key > (why people prefer pressing two keys together is beyond me), Because there aren't too many availble modifiers. And because I have a different modifier for casual "shifting". My settings: grp:shift_toggle,grp:win_switch What do you use to switch languages? > and I use it to > switch layouts, and have visual feedback at the bottom. And you can get the > variant of your choice for Nikud (I use LyX), using simple shift. Again, grp:win_switch. The shift key has its uses in both the Hebrew and > Also, I use > Dvorak as my main (English) layout, but I still have the US keyboard layout in > the menu, in case I want someone to use my computer. Well, it is important to be able to change the keyboard layout with the mouse in case you've messed it. Alternatively, run 'DISPLAY=:0 setkxbmap' from the console. > > In short, if you just get used to switching layouts, it works perfectly, and > you > can have variants in the layout you switch to. > > And I've been using application-based keyboard switching myself. Window-based > is > too fine for me - I want the next chat in Kopete to still have the Hebrew > keyboard on even if I closed the chat window. I have a majority of > Hebrew-speakers on my ICQ/MSN list. But when I switch to Konsole it's English > again. Too bad there is no way for Firefox to understand how to switch the > keyboard by context... This is totally irrelevant: this part means that the window manager uses the layout switching method. However kxkb's switching method takes more actions and is thus less appropriate for per-window mappings and such. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend ================================================================= 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]
