Hello, On Wed, 07 Nov 2012, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 11/07/2012 04:14 AM, James Knott wrote:
I just switched back to standard U.S. [...]
As I'm a programmer, I'm always using US keyboard layout, although most of the physical keyboards here have a German layout with umlauts etc.
When I have to write a longer text in German (or when I'm forced to enter my own name which includes a o-umlaut), then I use the following command to be able to switch between the German and the US layout at any time by pressing the right WIN key - and the scroll-lock LED indicates the toggling ;-)
$ setxkbmap -layout us,de -variant ,nodeadkeys \ -option grp:rwin_toggle,grp_led:scroll
I use xmodmap to add e.g. Umlauts to the US-Layout. Have a look at http://dhaller.de/linux/Xmodmap and (not up to date, just for reference): http://dhaller.de/linux/Xmodmap.pdf. After a couple of weeks, I'm typing either english or german including umlauts as fast as before. HTH, -dnh -- Zum Tier zu werden ist manchesmal recht menschlich. [WoKo in dag°] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org