On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Andrew Z <form...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alex, > > > Unfortunately the link to the tar isn't working right now, so I'll try > that again later (need to go sleep now...lol). From your reply it looks like > you are using an i686 system, correct? Also are you comfortable building > from source? If not I'll try to make the rpms for you if I can get it > working. > I have both ( 686 and 64) . It's just my 686 is setup for rpm building, and > i tried it to see if it can be done quickly. I do appreciate your help with > rpm building, but i'll try to get it done myself. > > Before i went into the abyss of dreamless night, i thought that i should > check the tars for xkb. Maybe guys never updated the srpms. So that will be > my next step. For reference : > http://archive.xfce.org/src/panel-plugins/xfce4-xkb-plugin/0.5/ Most > likely i get to this in a next few days.... > > Andrew > > > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Alexander Hunt < > alexander.d.h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> ** >> On 08/30/2011 09:37 PM, Andrew Z wrote: >> >> unfortunately all of them ( from fedora 9 to 12) produce: >> xkb-config.c: In function 'xkb_config_initialize_xkb_ >> options': >> xkb-config.c:153: error: too few arguments to function >> 'xkl_config_registry_load' >> xkb-config.c:138: warning: unused variable 'state' >> xkb-config.c: In function 'xkb_config_free': >> xkb-config.c:198: warning: unused variable 'i' >> xkb-config.c: In function 'xkb_config_get_xkl_registry': >> xkb-config.c:550: error: too few arguments to function >> 'xkl_config_registry_load' >> while I try to compile it.. >> >> the latest i tried was >> ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/archive.fedoraproject.org/fedora/linux/updates/12/SRPMS/xfce4-xkb-plugin-0.5.3.3-3.fc12.src.rpm >> next one >> (xfce4-xkb-plugin-0.5.3.3-4.fc13.i686.rpm<http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/15857499/dir/fedora_13/com/xfce4-xkb-plugin-0.5.3.3-4.fc13.i686.rpm.html>) >> requires libxklavier-5.1 and that's not in our repos :( >> >> i found reference to this bug ( >> http://osdir.com/ml/debian-bugs-closed/2010-04/msg01890.html). Not sure >> where to go from here.... >> >> Any ideas are welcomed >> Andrew >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Andrew Z <form...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Alexandr, >>> >... Maybe check and see if you have "keyboard" under the "settings" in >>> the menu. That gives you keyboard options on the last tab. If not check for >>> the file /usr/share/applications/xfce-keyboard-settings.desktop. >>> >>> both are in place. I should say that i installed xfce from epel by "group >>> install". Didn't do anything else. >>> >>> The annoyance with the "Keyboard" tool is that it doesn't provide a way >>> to select a shortcuts, nor it doesn't put the indicator on the panel. At the >>> same time i can select the language their and it work ( i can type in >>> selected language ) as expected.So that's a big plus. >>> So i'm pretty much sure that all i need is to find the way to assign a >>> keyboard shortcut and add the language indicator to the panel. >>> >>> while looking around i found the post by Jean-Paul - >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/scientific-linux-users@listserv.fnal.gov/msg07732.html, >>> yet no xfce4-xkb there. >>> I found smth here ( >>> http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/16012224/dir/fedora_15/com/xfce4-xkb-plugin-0.5.4.1-1.fc15.i686.rpm.html). >>> Will try to recompile. >>> >>> Thank you Alex for all the detailed information. >>> Andrew >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Alexander Hunt < >>> alexander.d.h...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On 08/29/2011 11:51 AM, Andrew Z wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello, >>>> i think i'm pretty much sold on XFCE4 . >>>> few quick questions: >>>> a. do i need any special repos for it? >>>> b. i'm looking for xfce4-xkb-plugin and it doesn't seemed to be in >>>> regular repos ( rpmforge, epel ). What am i missing? >>>> c. I need to add a shortcut to change the keyboard layouts. And i can't >>>> find a place where to specify the shortcut for that ... >>>> >>>> Please advise. >>>> Andrew >>>> >>>> Hi Andrew, >>>> Sorry it took a while to get to this... Since I also use XFCE I thought >>>> I could help. >>>> >>>> a.) just epel-testing, all the basics are there but some optionals are >>>> missing, like the plugins and xf-burn (maybe more but those are the ones >>>> I've needed too and aren't there). >>>> >>>> Maybe check and see if you have "keyboard" under the "settings" in the >>>> menu. That gives you keyboard options on the last tab. If not check for the >>>> file /usr/share/applications/xfce-keyboard-settings.desktop. I'm not sure >>>> if >>>> that app will give you the control you need or not. >>>> >>>> b.) I found this repo that has the .rpm for the kbd plugin, but I don't >>>> know how good the package builds are, but easy enough to get rid of it >>>> there >>>> is a problem: >>>> http://lcfg-sl5.see.ed.ac.uk/see/sl6_64/ (this link is for the x86_64 >>>> repo. If you use i686, just go to parent folder there and into the i686 >>>> folder) >>>> >>>> The package is here if you want to build it from source: >>>> http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-xkb-plugin >>>> >>>> c.) as far as a shortcut, I put all mine in the panel by: right-click >>>> panel, choose "panel" then "add new items", then choose the first thing in >>>> the list "launcher" and click "add". That will put a new icon in the panel. >>>> right click on that and click "properties", click the +. and choose the >>>> program you want to add, in my case "keyboard" (The downside of this is >>>> that >>>> it depends on the item being somewhere in the menu. ie it has a .desktop >>>> file.) >>>> Hope that helps; let me know if you need any other help, best regards, >>>> Alex >>>> >>> >>> Hi Andrew, >> I tried all the rpms and none work due to un-resolvable deps, however, I >> found a source for libxklavier 5, but then that depends on a newer version >> of isocodes and iso-codes-devel (3.23) than I can find at the moment. >> source of libxklavier is here: >> >> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/libxklavier.html >> >> and iso-codes here: >> >> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/iso-codes.html >> >> Unfortunately the link to the tar isn't working right now, so I'll try >> that again later (need to go sleep now...lol). From your reply it looks like >> you are using an i686 system, correct? Also are you comfortable building >> from source? If not I'll try to make the rpms for you if I can get it >> working. >> >> Alex >> > After two evenings and a bit too many drinks tonight ( as a result i messed up smth on my gpg keys ) i found a magic combination of just right patches to xfce4-xkb-plugin-0.5.3.3. It's really good because latest ( 0.5.4 ) versions do not support libxklavier 4.x. Anyway, here are the steps i took to get it working on 6.1 x64. 1. get xfce4-xkb-plugin-0.5.3.3-3.fc12.src.rpm from pbone.com 2. add patch for bug 6028 ( https://bugzilla.xfce.org/attachment.cgi?id=2695&action=diff) 3. bump to version to 4 in spec and add comment. 4. mock/rpmbuild 5. install. life should improve after this. one quick note: i had to explicitly remove 2nd layout from "App menu"-> "Settings" -> "Keyboard" - it seemed to be causing confusion - while in "US" layout, holding CTRL was causing the system to produce letters from the second layout. so i could not send a "terminate" signal ( ctrl-c ). Thank you Alexandr for your support. Andrew
