Re: Fwd: Keyboard switching

2007-11-28 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Edward Cherlin wrote: >> Bernardo, I think you concern about making >> the device screwed by choosing fancy layout is a bit of exageration - >> there is always touchpad which could be used to find the "restore >> default" button. > > As I was saying, the whole apparatus should be on a right butto

Re: Keyboard switching

2007-11-26 Thread Sergey Udaltsov
> We don't have to preconfigure everything in the xorg.conf manner. All > we need is a right button menu, like that for SCIM, allowing users to > choose a keyboard layout, and possibly an editor for that menu. The > menu selection can then invoke a call to setxkbmap. Yes, this way you'd get any lay

Fwd: Keyboard switching

2007-11-26 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Nov 24, 2007 6:04 AM, Sergey Udaltsov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Edward, > > > will need to allow for countries that use three or more scripts > > routinely, for students of history, religion, and other subjects > > involving historical source documents, and especially for students of > > lang

Re: Keyboard switching

2007-11-24 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
On 11/24/07 09:04, Sergey Udaltsov wrote: > Bernardo, I think you concern about making > the device screwed by choosing fancy layout is a bit of exageration - > there is always touchpad which could be used to find the "restore > default" button. There's no such button yet :-) But I also think ma

Re: Keyboard switching

2007-11-24 Thread Sergey Udaltsov
Edward, > will need to allow for countries that use three or more scripts > routinely, for students of history, religion, and other subjects > involving historical source documents, and especially for students of > languages. FYI, X does not allow to have more than 4 groups in one configuration. I

Re: Keyboard switching

2007-11-23 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
On 11/23/07 23:43, Edward Cherlin wrote: >> Blame me if you don't like it :-) > > So right now there is no way to modify xorg.conf, but it will be set > correctly for one or two languages required in the target country. OK. > I don't need it. I'll change where I discussed this in the Wiki. You >

Re: Keyboard switching

2007-11-23 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Nov 23, 2007 4:22 PM, Bernardo Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/23/07 17:32, Edward Cherlin wrote: > > On Nov 23, 2007 3:38 AM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I know how to switch the console keyboard, and how to use SCIM for IME > >> switching, but how does one switc

Re: Keyboard switching

2007-11-23 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
On 11/23/07 17:32, Edward Cherlin wrote: > On Nov 23, 2007 3:38 AM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I know how to switch the console keyboard, and how to use SCIM for IME >> switching, but how does one switch the X keyboard? I haven't found >> this information on the Wiki. > I thank

Re: Keyboard switching

2007-11-23 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Nov 23, 2007 3:38 AM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know how to switch the console keyboard, and how to use SCIM for IME > switching, but how does one switch the X keyboard? I haven't found > this information on the Wiki. I thank the people who pointed to the explanation of edit

Keyboard switching

2007-11-23 Thread Edward Cherlin
I know how to switch the console keyboard, and how to use SCIM for IME switching, but how does one switch the X keyboard? I haven't found this information on the Wiki. -- Edward Cherlin Earth Treasury: End Poverty at a Profit http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Earth_Treasury Sustainable MBA student Presid