Lisa, Speaking as a native of Phoenix, it was just a warm summer day today.....it only gets hot when the airplanes can't take off and birds start falling dead out of the sky......;-) Thanks for the tip on the keyboard indicator. It is in the system tray after all, and I never noticed it. Should be a flag instead of letters. Any cool applets that show the actual keyboard layout? I would hate to think an iMac has more bells and whistles than Debian Gnome! ;-) Mark On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote: > Hey Mark; hot enough for you? > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Mark Phillips < > mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote: > >> I need to type some German documents, so I would like to use a German >> keyboard. My daughter's Mac had a nifty gadget that allows her to switch her >> keyboard from English to Spanish when she types papers in Spanish. It has a >> cute little Spanish flag on her menu bar and it also popped up a keyboard >> map so she could see where the extra accented keys were located when she >> typed in Spanish. Is there something similar for Gnome/Debian testing? >> > > Yes nice Gnome Keyboard with applied Keyboard mistakes: "Gnome pegboard" > often rescued to use kezboard, keyboard indicator), > > http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.30/ > > > >> I can switch the keyboard using System->Preferences->Keyboard to a German >> keyboard, but I would like a visual representation of the keyboard to know >> where the keys are located (ie qwerty is actually qwertz on a German >> kezboard=. There is supposed to be a gnome applet called keyboard >> indicator, but I can't seem to find it on my system or find it in the >> Debian repository. The references I have seen are to click on a a panel and >> select "keyboard indicator" to install it....but I ain't got one of those >> darn things as an option! Very frustrating! >> > > "Keyboard indicator" is included in 2.30 and later. > > > >> >> Thanks! >> >> Mark >> >> > > -- > Office: (602)239-3392 > AT&T: (503)754-4452 > http://it-clowns.com > "Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether > impossible. " > --Stanislav Lem > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >