SOLVED! install other keyboard layouts in LXDE
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SOLVED! install other keyboard layouts in LXDE
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Howto install other keyboard layouts in LXDE, so I can change to each country, that I want?
BTW I need for sure US, DE and CH layout.
Howto install other keyboard layouts in LXDE, so I can change to each country, that I want?
BTW I need for sure US, DE and CH layout.
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Re: install other keyboard layouts in LXDE
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To add the functionality of multiple keyboards, first add (as root) to the autostart file (see Section 16) your language choices, for example, for US and French, add
@setxkbmap -layout "us,fr" .
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@setxkbmap -layout "us,de,ch"
Re: install other keyboard layouts in LXDE
"To finalize the procedure, right click a panel (taskbar) and add Keyboard Layout Switcher (see Section 4). The flag of the default keyboard country will appear on the panel. When clicked the keyboard will change and the icon should display a new flag."
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Re: install other keyboard layouts in LXDE
Thank you. That helped me to enable in LXDE switching betweenccc wrote:Thx a lot, but should I add this entry:Code: Select all
To add the functionality of multiple keyboards, first add (as root) to the autostart file (see Section 16) your language choices, for example, for US and French, add @setxkbmap -layout "us,fr" .
in /etc/xdg/lxsession/lubuntu/autostart and that's it?Code: Select all
@setxkbmap -layout "us,de,ch"
- us
- us intl
- de
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@setxkbmap -layout "us,us,de" -variant ",altgr-intl,"
(In the task bar, the keyboard switcher display unfortunately doesn't indicate the difference between us and us-intl, but that is a minor issue.)
Re: install other keyboard layouts in LXDE
Hello, I have done the same but it seems each time I so a restart it has only US keyboard. Is there something else I need to do?
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Re: install other keyboard layouts in LXDE
After it worked initially, I now have the same problem as described by you.Mihujoy wrote:Hello, I have done the same but it seems each time I so a restart it has only US keyboard. Is there something else I need to do?
There seem to be many places where keyboard settings are made by different applications.
Best regards frrom Munich
Goetz
Re: install other keyboard layouts in LXDE
I changed in /etc/default/keyboard:and now it seems to work.
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# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE
# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us,de,ch"
XKBVARIANT="nodeadkeys"
XKBOPTIONS=""
BACKSPACE="guess"
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倉頡/注音鍵盤 (Keyboard (Taiwan))
Thank you, ccc: I'll try that out. Strangely presently my choices (US-English, US-English international, German) sometimes worke and sometimes don't work than it's (US-English, US-English, German). There also may be a conflict with SCIM (Chinese for my wife, Japanese for me). And there surely will be a conlict with IBUS and GCIN (yet not as good as SCIM, but SCIM hasn't upstrem support anymore). As I have no time for experiments, I use the German keyboard for German and probably later will try out Mageia and check, whether they continue the excellent multi language support which their "ancestors" had in the past.
My preferred keyboard has a Chinese (Taiwan) keyboard layout, a US keyboard with Zhuyin, Cangjie and Dayi key labels (倉頡/注音鍵盤).
My preferred keyboard has a Chinese (Taiwan) keyboard layout, a US keyboard with Zhuyin, Cangjie and Dayi key labels (倉頡/注音鍵盤).
Re: SOLVED! install other keyboard layouts in LXDE
Which layout can I use for british keyboard in LXDE?
If I use Keyboard Layout Switcher with gb then I don't get british image displayed.
In /usr/share/lxpanel/images/xkb-flags gb.png doesn't exist, I have only uk.png.
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cat /etc/default/keyboards:
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="gb"
XKBVARIANT="nodeadkeys"
XKBOPTIONS=""
BACKSPACE="guess"
In /usr/share/lxpanel/images/xkb-flags gb.png doesn't exist, I have only uk.png.