Re: hebrew (or arabic) transparency to call up when i forget key location?

2012-12-31 Thread Michael Shiloh
never occurred to me that it might be built-in: the menu that lets me select layouts also includes a layout map! perhaps not quite as convenient as a hot key, but perhaps that's better, as it will encourage me to memorize the keyboard. thanks for the tip! On 12/30/2012 11:53 PM, E.S.

hebrew (or arabic) transparency to call up when i forget key location?

2012-12-30 Thread Michael Shiloh
i just found a nice feature in Unity (new to me at least): press and hold the special key for a semi-transparent overview of keyboard shortcuts, great for jogging the memory. such a transparency of the hebrew (and arabic) keyboard would help me learn to type in hebrew, as i have only english

Re: hebrew (or arabic) transparency to call up when i forget key location?

2012-12-30 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Have you tried to see what happens when your layout is set to Hebrew/Arabic, if the feature is to help you know where the keys are then it should show in those languages when the keyboard is set to that layout. Though it may also be meant as a touch-screen feature allowing for easy super+[key]

Re: hebrew (or arabic) transparency to call up when i forget key location?

2012-12-30 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
(Either way, ubuntu unity, gnome3 and most other DEs feature onscreen keyboards that can be set to any layout, so you can use those as your onscreen map) 2012/12/31 E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il: Have you tried to see what happens when your layout is set to Hebrew/Arabic, if the