On Friday 20 November 2009 01:38:26 am Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
Are you using Gnome or KDE (or other)? Which version?
It is KDE 4.1.3 (build 4.9)
All I want to do: a) have THREE (not the present intimidating long list) KB layouts: Japanese, English and German b) be able to switch between these using a SIMPLE shortcut (like Alt+Shift) Does <CTRL>-<ALT>-k do anything
Yes, it changes the country flag shown in the right lower corner of the screen. From Japanese to German and back. But this has NO effect on the behavior of the keyboard. If I want to change in input method between English (no need for an extra keyboard layout) and Japanese, I have to click on the keyboard icon to switch through a series(!) of choices. Then I am able to type either in Japanese or English. No shortcut key works.
But if I change to the "German keyboard layout" (German flag shows), I still get the same behavior as with English. No German characters are available. With YaST -> software management I added Japanese and German as "additional languages".
If changing the KB layout is really sooo difficult ... I believe there is work to done.
I am grateful for any help.
Thomas
Thomas, I tried this with German and French keyboard layouts at work where I am using openSUSE 11.0 updated to KDE4.3. That seemed to work and changed the keyboard behavior. I am just trying at home now (opensuse 11.2, KDE 4.3.3) and I am seeing *some* change in the keyboard layout. Running through some of the characters US-English abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ German abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxzy ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXZY (I don't know how this will show up in your email, but here 'y' and 'z' are interchanged.) Also some of other keys have changed []\,./ ü+#,.- So something is happening, but I don't think this would get you far in German. I'll check if the same thing occurs at work later today and let you know. -- Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org