Need Help Configuring a German Keyboard

[Mark Phillips]

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 at obnosis.com>wrote:

> 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/
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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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