On Sunday March 4 2007, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: > > I've learned that the following commands do the switching: > > setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us > > setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout il > > so I can use them as input actions to select english/hebrew. > > > > However, turns out the commands do not update the icon. > > Is there a better way to switching language on KDE 3.5.5/FC5 using the > > keyboard? > > Please have a look at the following bug with a micro-HOWTO inside, > on how to enable keyboard-based switching on the dead right-windows key: > > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84606
Oh, but that's just evil, setting RWIN to be a third-level modifier just for the fun of selecting it as a language switching key, because the binding selection engine does not understand that it is a modifier. If you would bind it as something else, that would be nice, but people use ISO_Level3_Shift to temporarily switch keymaps, and your hack creates a collision. It is interesting that ISO_Next_Group and ISO_Prev_Group can't be used as kde modifier "keys", for some reason unknown to me. Perhaps, in a world where modifier keys can be bound to actions, making it impossible to bind the right key to this action makes sense. Moreover, it is only possible to switch keymaps in one direction in KDE. I still hang to my opinion that KDE keyboard switching is a mess between xkb and modmap, thus, I use xkb and ignore KDE keymap switching altogether. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev The following statement is not true. The previous statement is true. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
