Yes, you're right about X11 respecting the keyboard switch from the
flag menulet. This, however, still doesn't allow for special country-
specific characters, i.e. accented vowels. In Greek, for instance,
vowels are accented when the word stress falls on them. So you might
have alpha "α" or accented alpha "'ά". Same goes for all other
vowels, and it affects lower case or caps the same. The keyboard
switcher takes care of the proper mapping of the sequential pressing
of the accent key (the semicolon button, just to the right of the 'L'
key) and one of the vowels (lower case or capitals) to produce the
accented version of the vowel in question. The flag icon method
produces, instead, a semicolon followed by the unaccented vowel. So,
instead of "ά", I get ";α".
On Jan 4, 2007, at 4:05 PM, Guy Voets wrote:
2007/1/4, Alex Zachopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I have a separate little X11 app to switch between the standard latin
and the greek keyboards, but I was wondering if someone has a better
idea as to how to do this. My current solution involves running this
separate app when I start OOo, and it shows up on the screen as a
flag (greek/english), but if I minimize it the icon doesn't refresh
anymore in the Dock, so if I have changed keyboard language after
minimizing, then the visual feedback is wrong.
Not a major issue, but an annoyance nonetheless.
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Dear Alex
I think you don't need a seperate program to switch between
keyboards under X11. As far as I can see, X11 respects the keyboard
layout provided by the Mac OS. I just switch between language/
keyboards with the small country flag in the top right part of the
screen (next to sound level, clock, airport etc.). You may have to
make the keyboard change after starting up X11/OOo, but your choice
will be respected by X11 and OOo. The flag also continues to
correspond to your choice.
On the other hand, I found that the shortcut to switch between
keyboard/languages (i.e. Apple-Space) does NOT work under OOo,
probably because it is assigned to some other function.
If you can't find where to change this: System preferences >
Personal > Country preferences > Input menu
OK?
--
Guy
using english OOo 2.0.4 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger
and dutch OOo 2.1 RC 1 on a G4 PPC Powerbook Tiger
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