ÎÏÎÏ 21/ÎÎÎ/2005, ÎÎÎÏÎ ÎÎÏÏÎÏÎ ÎÎÎ ÏÏÎ 12:31, Î/Î Elvis Presley ÎÎÏÎÏÎ: > Thanks for the help. > > I never would have found the GNOME indicator control panel alone, well, maybe > in 100 years. :) > > Elvis > > > --- "Simos Xenitellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As a GNOME user, my preferred method is to use GTK+ IM (yes, there is > > such a thing). Assuming you are running GNOME, you > > > 1. Make sure that no changes in xorg.conf are in place.That is, you have > > a vanilla system with regards to input methods, so we do not have > > interference.. > > My xorg.conf is full of settings... I haven't changed anything, > but I don't know exactly what you mean by "vanilla." I proceed anyway...
By vanilla I meant not setting and XKB-related options. OK. > > 2. Right-click on the panel > > Add to Panel/Utility/Keyboard Indicator > > , ... it works! I've got the indicator on the > panel. Here you type Greek but it's not shown properly. You are using Yahoo! Mail which is doing a bad job with languages other than English. Yahoo! Mail (and Hotmail) started out by using 8-bit encodings for the mails and are slow to improve. A better option is to try GMail as it defaults to Unicode and UTF-8. I just sent you a GMail invite, I hope you make use of it. > > Strangely enough, apart from Indicator, it's also a Keyboard switcher. > > Once done, you will see the string "USA" on your panel. Right-click on > > it and choose "Open Keyboard Preferences". Go to "Layouts" and choose > > the languages you want to use. Safe choices are "US English" and > > "Greek", or you might go for "UK English" and "Greek". > > You can add up to four languages in the list. > > I've got two languages, USA and Greek, but I can't add any others, the > configuration error message appears. What does the error message say? What distribution are you using? Can you show a screenshot of the error message? The typical action in such a case is to search in Google using the error message. Try first to enclose the error message in double quotes (such as in "Error 3982: Cannot load XYZ") which most probably will lead you to a similar report. > > Then, click on "Layout Options". Here we choose the key combination to > > switch between language. I prefer under "Group Shirt/Ctrl behavior" to > > use both Shift keys. Choose which you prefer. > > Click ok and you are done! > > I see what you mean... I like "Both Alt keys together change group," but I > can't add the shortcut, because the configuration error message appears. Show what's the error message. > > How to test? > > Open up "gedit" (Start/Accessories/Text Editor on Fedora Core). > > Switch language and enjoy typing. > > Yes, it works. I can now type in Greek in GNOME! I can change the keymaps > by clicking on the indicator. > > > Right-click inside the Text Editor and you get an option to choose Input > > Methods. Here, you will see Default (GTK+ IM) and X Input Method (XIM). > > Default is good. > > > Oh, tell me if you see something called "Internet/Intranet" in the list. > > Do not use setxkbmap with GTK+ IM, it will mess it up. > > "" (Default) is set, but it doesn't show GTK+ IM. I guess > I'm > still working with XKB. [No problem, I'm happy to be able to select the > keymap with the mouse and type in Greek.] There are 10 selections, XIM is > the last one, but no "Internet/Intranet" in the list. The "Internet/Intranet" does not show because you do not have the IIIMF packages installed. If you have FC3, check out http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/i18n/iiimf-faq.html Talking about Fedora and Red Hat, the latter commited last year to support IIIMF as the input method to use. IIIMF is platform-independent. Suppose there is Unicode support on the Linux console in the future (through framebuffer), IIIMF could be used there as well. As well in Windows, OS/X, and more... Simos -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
