Alexandr, >... 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.
both are in place. I should say that i installed xfce from epel by "group install". Didn't do anything else. The annoyance with the "Keyboard" tool is that it doesn't provide a way to select a shortcuts, nor it doesn't put the indicator on the panel. At the same time i can select the language their and it work ( i can type in selected language ) as expected.So that's a big plus. So i'm pretty much sure that all i need is to find the way to assign a keyboard shortcut and add the language indicator to the panel. while looking around i found the post by Jean-Paul - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg07732.html, yet no xfce4-xkb there. I found smth here ( http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/16012224/dir/fedora_15/com/xfce4-xkb-plugin-0.5.4.1-1.fc15.i686.rpm.html). Will try to recompile. Thank you Alex for all the detailed information. Andrew On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Alexander Hunt < [email protected]> wrote: > ** > 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 >
