Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard Layout Switching in KDE 3.5.x

[Dvir Volk]

i did it for years using xkb settings.
anyway, you'll be glad to know that in kde 4.1 this finally works the way it
should.
although kde 4 has made me switch to gnome and i don't see myself coming
back anytime soon (cue flame wars. oh, it's not /. nevermind)

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Amichai Rotman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I was finally able to fix the most annoying (to me) feature in KDE:
> Switching between Hebrew and English layouts using the left side Alt-Shift
> key combination...
>
> I am sure some of you out there are still having this problem (clicking the
> flag on the system tray to switch between  layouts), so I thought I would
> share the solution I found (based on the following comment to the bug):
>
> Bug 99009: Keyboard Layout - Switching lang groups does not 
> work
>
> I am running KDE 3.5.10 on Kubuntu 8.0.4.1.Here are the steps I took
> (broken down for the newbie):
>
>
>1. Open KControl
>2. enter 'key' in the search box
>3. Click on 'Keyboard Layout' on the top list, then on the bottom.
>4. Uncheck the 'Enable keyboard layouts' box and click OK.
>5. Open a terminal window.
>6. Edit the following file with your favorite text editor:
>~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals (no need to become root (sudo))
>7. Look for the following line: "Switch to Next Keyboard Layout=" and
>change whatever is after the '=' to "Alt+Shift_L;Alt+Shift_R"
>8. Save the file and exit the editor.
>9. Repeat steps 1-3 and re-check the box you've unchecked instep 4.
>10. That's it! try it.
>
> I know it is very newbie-like for most of you, but I wanted to make sure
> the procedure comes across the right way... so please don't flame me ;-)
>
> I hope I helped a least one of you out there...
>
>
> .::.
>
> Amichai Rotman
>
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Re: Interference with Markets (was: Re: [Haifux] Successful Windows Vista refund!!)

[Omer Zak]

On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 14:31 +0200, sara fink wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Encourage (by getting people to demand it) providers to sell
> PCs with
> Linux, in which a VM is installed and runs a MS-Windows XP
> image.
> 
> VM anyone can install. Asking VM installed with windows xp image will
> open the door to charge extra charge for the image of XP.  After all,
> if it's not registered image, after 30 days you can't use it anymore.
> You need to re- install the image.  

So what?
1. The seller could sell, as part of the deal, a MS-Windows XP license.
2. Not everyone has the expertise to install, configure and optimize a
VM.  If the seller can profit from doing this in behalf of the buyer,
why not?

--- Omer


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Re: Interference with Markets (was: Re: [Haifux] Successful Windows Vista refund!!)

[sara fink]

>
> Encourage (by getting people to demand it) providers to sell PCs with
> Linux, in which a VM is installed and runs a MS-Windows XP image.


VM anyone can install. Asking VM installed with windows xp image will open
the door to charge extra charge for the image of XP.  After all, if it's not
registered image, after 30 days you can't use it anymore. You need to re-
install the image.

>
>
> Such a configuration will benefit the Free Software world by making it
> easy to bridge between MS-Windows XP and Linux (no more having to
> dual-boot the PC).
>
>   --- Omer
>
> On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 13:21 +0200, Dan Shimshoni wrote:
> > I wish that there will be some serious initiative to take advantage
> > of this precedent
> > and to change the current status of PC/latop computer market
> > in Israel ; I would wish that some
> > law will be passed that would enforce ***every*** computer store in
> Israel
> > to sale a PC/laptop with no OS on it, and also would enforce every
> advertisment
> > of these stores to declare this option clearly. This is election time
> now.
> > Maybe an Atzuma should be prepared  ? maybe some parliament members
> > will be interested in such an initiative ? Can anyone think of
> > something ?
>
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> )
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Last Day Reminder [was Re: Welcome to Linux: Linux for the Student on Sunday, 7-Dec-2008]

[Shlomi Fish]

This is a reminder that we will have a Welcome to Linux meeting tomorrow at 
18:30. More information can be found at the quoted message below.

Regards,

Shlomi Fish

On Tuesday 02 December 2008, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> As part of the Welcome to Linux ( http://welcome.linux.org.il/ ) series,
> the Tel Aviv Linux club will hold the third meeting in the series, next
> Sunday, 7-December-2008. Sagiv Barhoom will present about "Linux for the
> Student"
>
> The presentation will start at 18:30, in the Schreiber building, room 008
> of Tel Aviv University. Attendance is free and everyone are welcome.
>
> The purpose of the Welcome to Linux series is to introduce Linux to people
> who are not very familiar with it. More information can be found at:
>
> * http://welcome.linux.org.il/2008/
> * http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/telux/
>
> Regards,
>
>   Shlomi Fish



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Interference with Markets (was: Re: [Haifux] Successful Windows Vista refund!!)

[Omer Zak]

I would be very wary of any law, which interferes with operation of
businesses.  There can always be unforeseen consequences.  One possible
consequence comes to one's mind:

Embedded system which is always sold with an operating system and
applications which allow its safe operation.
Then one has to define the borderline between a PC to be covered and an
embedded system to be exempted.

I have a better suggestion:

Encourage (by getting people to demand it) providers to sell PCs with
Linux, in which a VM is installed and runs a MS-Windows XP image.

Such a configuration will benefit the Free Software world by making it
easy to bridge between MS-Windows XP and Linux (no more having to
dual-boot the PC).

   --- Omer

On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 13:21 +0200, Dan Shimshoni wrote:
> I wish that there will be some serious initiative to take advantage
> of this precedent
> and to change the current status of PC/latop computer market
> in Israel ; I would wish that some
> law will be passed that would enforce ***every*** computer store in Israel
> to sale a PC/laptop with no OS on it, and also would enforce every 
> advertisment
> of these stores to declare this option clearly. This is election time now.
> Maybe an Atzuma should be prepared  ? maybe some parliament members
> will be interested in such an initiative ? Can anyone think of
> something ?

-- 
"Kosher" Cellphones (cellphones with blocked SMS, video and Internet)
are menace to the deaf.  They must be outlawed!
(See also: 
http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/2006/04/21/the-grave-danger-to-the-deaf-from-kosher-cellphones/)
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Re: [Haifux] Successful Windows Vista refund!!

[Dan Shimshoni]

Hello,

First I would like to say big thanks to the following bloggers, who mentioned
zvi dvir and his struggle;
Shachar Shemesh, Oren Maurer, Ori Idan, Doron Ofek.
You are great!
(Did I miss anyone ? Sorry if I missed anyone, these is what I saw in:

http://planet.linux.org.il/)

Yet I think it is not enough and I wish more bloggers would accept my call
and mention zvi dvir and his struggle in their blogs; mind you, googling
for 'zvi dvir' (in hebrew) gives now less than 450 results ! I wish it
would be thousands!

I wish that there will be some serious initiative to take advantage
of this precedent
and to change the current status of PC/latop computer market
in Israel ; I would wish that some
law will be passed that would enforce ***every*** computer store in Israel
to sale a PC/laptop with no OS on it, and also would enforce every advertisment
of these stores to declare this option clearly. This is election time now.
Maybe an Atzuma should be prepared  ? maybe some parliament members
will be interested in such an initiative ? Can anyone think of
something ?

I think that taking advantage of this precedent in such a way can really
benefit the open source community in Israel.


Regards,
Dan


On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dan Shimshoni wrote:
>>
>> Zvi,
>>
>>  - You are our Open Source hero of the week (or maybe of the year,
>> or maybe decade!).
>>
>
> Personally, I think the importance of windows refund reach far beyond the
> scope of "using Linux without paying the Microsoft tax". I wrote about it in
> my blog (http://blog.shemesh.biz/?p=568), but the gist of it is this:
> The entire validity of a EULA hangs on the article in it Zvi used - without
> it, there is no informed consent to the EULA and the entire agreement is
> null and void. This means that them resisting the refund is actually a good
> thing. What you need to sue them for is for not letting you move your copy
> of vista to a new computer, and use their refusal to give refunds as the
> proof that you did not accept the agreement, and are therefor not bound by
> it.
>
> Shachar
>

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[SOLVED] Keyboard Layout Switching in KDE 3.5.x

[Amichai Rotman]

Hello all,

I was finally able to fix the most annoying (to me) feature in KDE:
Switching between Hebrew and English layouts using the left side Alt-Shift
key combination...

I am sure some of you out there are still having this problem (clicking the
flag on the system tray to switch between  layouts), so I thought I would
share the solution I found (based on the following comment to the bug):

Bug 99009: Keyboard Layout - Switching lang groups does not
work

I am running KDE 3.5.10 on Kubuntu 8.0.4.1.Here are the steps I took (broken
down for the newbie):


   1. Open KControl
   2. enter 'key' in the search box
   3. Click on 'Keyboard Layout' on the top list, then on the bottom.
   4. Uncheck the 'Enable keyboard layouts' box and click OK.
   5. Open a terminal window.
   6. Edit the following file with your favorite text editor:
   ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals (no need to become root (sudo))
   7. Look for the following line: "Switch to Next Keyboard Layout=" and
   change whatever is after the '=' to "Alt+Shift_L;Alt+Shift_R"
   8. Save the file and exit the editor.
   9. Repeat steps 1-3 and re-check the box you've unchecked instep 4.
   10. That's it! try it.

I know it is very newbie-like for most of you, but I wanted to make sure the
procedure comes across the right way... so please don't flame me ;-)

I hope I helped a least one of you out there...


::.

Amichai Rotman

UIN#: 6401746
Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/]
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