On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 10:33:29 -0500 Patrick Serru patrick@serru.net wrote:
Le lundi 07 janvier 2013, Patrick Serru a écrit :
... An other (XOrg?) problem: after a new window has been open, I have to click 2 times on the kxkb (supposed) icon in the taskbar to change the flag to american, then back to spanish, so that the keyboard is properly interpreted as Spanish. Note that the toggeling rule (Règle de basculement) was "Global". I try now to configure it to have only the spanish option, and will tell you later if it changed anything.
Hi all, It does not work! When there is only the spanish possibility askeyboard layout, I have to click on the icone to get spanish keyboard.
When kxkb is not used, the keyboard is allways américan. Americankeyboard is nice but I need metacharacters! Is there a way to get metacaracters with us keyboard?
You should be able to set a layout-switch hotkey through xkb directly. The options used to be under Keyboard Layout -> Xkb Options in the Control Center, or you can call setxkbmap from the command line. You can also set a compose key this way, which will let you type characters with accents and other diacritics using a US keyboard layout.
For instance, my system has Scroll Lock set as a compose key, so if I want to type n-tilde (ñ), the corresponding key sequence is Scroll Lock, ~, n. The corresponding setxkbmap command would be: setxkbmap -option compose:sclk