Need Help Configuring a German Keyboard

[Kevin Fries]

Does debian testing use ibus like Ubuntu does?   If so, its quite easy, and
lots of tutorials exist on the net, but the keys to finding them is the term
ibus.  I use japanese input all the time, and it works great.  But I'm on my
phone right now and don't have thelinks in front of me.

If ibus is not available, maybe someone more familiar with debian testing
will have a better answer.

Kevin

On Aug 17, 2010 12:52 PM, "Mark Phillips" <mark at 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?

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!

Thanks!

Mark

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