Need Help Configuring a German Keyboard

[John]

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.

--- On Tue, 8/17/10, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:

From: Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
Subject: Re: Need Help Configuring a German Keyboard
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 5:58 PM

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/ 



 
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




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