[ltp] a few long questions with potentially short answers

[Yves Dorfsman]

nescivi wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 March 2009 01:15:41 André Wyrwa wrote:
>> 6. OT: automatic input replacement:
>> I have a US model, but find myself typing german stuff a lot, recently,
>> needing umlauts quite a bit. Does anyone know of a little daemon or any
>> other good solution to automatically replace ue,ae,oe,ss by their german
>> versions in an application independent fashion? Maybe with holding a
>> qualifier? I'm using gnomes charmap applet for now, but it's still too
>> annoying.
> 
> I'm using a little applet (KDE keyboard tool; but I'm sure there's one for 
> Gnome too) to switch keyboard layouts... So even though my actual layout is 
> US, if I have to type German, I use the German layout (which I am familiar 

Yes, gnome has support for multiple keyboard layout. If you go into it's 
administration interface, you simply add more keyboard. You can add an 
applet to the "bar" which shows you which keyboard is currently selected for 
the apps currently in focus (you can switch keyboard from apps to apps, so 
say have one email with the US keyboard and one with the German keybaord, 
both open on the same screen).

The default key to switch combination between keyboards is <ctrl><alt>.

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