John,
Outstanding!! Thanks so much!!
Mark
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:46 AM, John <
jharitos@yahoo.com> wrote:
> If you right mouse click on the letters (for example, USA), there's a
> choice of show current layout. If you chose this, you'll see the keyboard
> layout. You can resize this or use the upper left options to stick it on
> top.
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> --- On *Tue, 8/17/10, Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz>* wrote:
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> From: Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz>
> Subject: Re: Need Help Configuring a German Keyboard
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 5:58 PM
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> 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 <lisakachold@obnosis.com<http://mc/compose?to=lisakachold@obnosis.com>
> > wrote:
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> Hey Mark; hot enough for you?
>
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Mark Phillips <
> mark@phillipsmarketing.biz<http://mc/compose?to=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/
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> 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!
>
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> "Keyboard indicator" is included in 2.30 and later.
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> Thanks!
>
> Mark
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