On 08/29/2011 11:51 AM, Andrew Z wrote:
Hello,
i think i'm pretty much sold on XFCE4 .
few quick questions:
a. do i need any special repos for it?
b. i'm looking for xfce4-xkb-plugin and it doesn't seemed to be in
regular repos ( rpmforge, epel ). What am i missing?
c. I need to add a shortcut to change the keyboard layouts. And i
can't find a place where to specify the shortcut for that ...
Please advise.
Andrew
Hi Andrew,
Sorry it took a while to get to this... Since I also use XFCE I thought
I could help.
a.) just epel-testing, all the basics are there but some optionals are
missing, like the plugins and xf-burn (maybe more but those are the ones
I've needed too and aren't there).
Maybe check and see if you have "keyboard" under the "settings" in the
menu. That gives you keyboard options on the last tab. If not check for
the file /usr/share/applications/xfce-keyboard-settings.desktop. I'm not
sure if that app will give you the control you need or not.
b.) I found this repo that has the .rpm for the kbd plugin, but I don't
know how good the package builds are, but easy enough to get rid of it
there is a problem:
http://lcfg-sl5.see.ed.ac.uk/see/sl6_64/ (this link is for the x86_64
repo. If you use i686, just go to parent folder there and into the i686
folder)
The package is here if you want to build it from source:
http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-xkb-plugin
c.) as far as a shortcut, I put all mine in the panel by: right-click
panel, choose "panel" then "add new items", then choose the first thing
in the list "launcher" and click "add". That will put a new icon in the
panel. right click on that and click "properties", click the +. and
choose the program you want to add, in my case "keyboard" (The downside
of this is that it depends on the item being somewhere in the menu. ie
it has a .desktop file.)
Hope that helps; let me know if you need any other help, best regards,
Alex
