Alex, > Unfortunately the link to the tar isn't working right now, so I'll try that again later (need to go sleep now...lol). From your reply it looks like you are using an i686 system, correct? Also are you comfortable building from source? If not I'll try to make the rpms for you if I can get it working. I have both ( 686 and 64) . It's just my 686 is setup for rpm building, and i tried it to see if it can be done quickly. I do appreciate your help with rpm building, but i'll try to get it done myself.
Before i went into the abyss of dreamless night, i thought that i should check the tars for xkb. Maybe guys never updated the srpms. So that will be my next step. For reference : http://archive.xfce.org/src/panel-plugins/xfce4-xkb-plugin/0.5/ Most likely i get to this in a next few days.... Andrew On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Alexander Hunt < [email protected]> wrote: > ** > On 08/30/2011 09:37 PM, Andrew Z wrote: > > unfortunately all of them ( from fedora 9 to 12) produce: > xkb-config.c: In function 'xkb_config_initialize_xkb_ > options': > xkb-config.c:153: error: too few arguments to function > 'xkl_config_registry_load' > xkb-config.c:138: warning: unused variable 'state' > xkb-config.c: In function 'xkb_config_free': > xkb-config.c:198: warning: unused variable 'i' > xkb-config.c: In function 'xkb_config_get_xkl_registry': > xkb-config.c:550: error: too few arguments to function > 'xkl_config_registry_load' > while I try to compile it.. > > the latest i tried was > ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/archive.fedoraproject.org/fedora/linux/updates/12/SRPMS/xfce4-xkb-plugin-0.5.3.3-3.fc12.src.rpm > next one > (xfce4-xkb-plugin-0.5.3.3-4.fc13.i686.rpm<http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/15857499/dir/fedora_13/com/xfce4-xkb-plugin-0.5.3.3-4.fc13.i686.rpm.html>) > requires libxklavier-5.1 and that's not in our repos :( > > i found reference to this bug ( > http://osdir.com/ml/debian-bugs-closed/2010-04/msg01890.html). Not sure > where to go from here.... > > Any ideas are welcomed > Andrew > > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Andrew Z <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >>> >> >> Hi Andrew, > I tried all the rpms and none work due to un-resolvable deps, however, I > found a source for libxklavier 5, but then that depends on a newer version > of isocodes and iso-codes-devel (3.23) than I can find at the moment. > source of libxklavier is here: > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/libxklavier.html > > and iso-codes here: > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/iso-codes.html > > Unfortunately the link to the tar isn't working right now, so I'll try that > again later (need to go sleep now...lol). From your reply it looks like you > are using an i686 system, correct? Also are you comfortable building from > source? If not I'll try to make the rpms for you if I can get it working. > > Alex > > > >
