Need Help Configuring a German Keyboard

[Lisa Kachold]

Hey Mark; hot enough for you?

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:52 AM, 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?
>

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 <http://it-clowns.com/wiki/index.php?title=Obnosis>
"Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether
impossible. "
--Stanislav Lem
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/pipermail/plug-discuss/attachments/20100817/c18c6125/attachment.html>