GNOME KeyBoard Applet


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GNOME KeyBoard Applet

GNOME KeyBoard Applet

GNOME KeyBoard Applet, shown with its default configuration in Figure 1, allows you to easily and quickly change the keyboard map to those used in various different countries. To add this applet to a Panel, right-click on the Panel and choose Panel->Add to panel->Applet->Utility->GKB KeyBoard Switcher.

Customization

You can customize GNOME KeyBoard applet by right-clicking on it and choosing Properties…. This will open the Properties dialog (shown in Figure 2), which allows you to add, modify, and remove keymaps, as well as to configure the applet's appearance.

The Properties dialog box has two tabs: Keymaps and Options. On the Keymaps tab, you can Add, Edit, Delete or change the order of keyboard layouts. On the Options tab you can set the appearance of the applet (flag, label or flag+label) and its size (Normal or Big), as well as the key sequence to use to get GKB to switch between keyboard layouts (see the Section called Known Bugs and Limitations section.)

Setting keyboard layouts for you language

Setting up keymaps can consist in one or more of the following steps:

After you have made all the changes you want, click on Apply to apply the changes or on OK to apply the changes and close the Properties dialog. To cancel the changes and return to previous values, click the Close button. The Help button brings up this chapter of the on-line help.

Authors

GNOME KeyBoard was written by Szabolcs Ban (). Please send all comments, suggestions, and bug reports to the GNOME bug tracking database. (Instructions for submitting bug reports can be found on-line). You can also use Bug Report Tool (bug-buddy), available in the Utilities submenu of Main Menu, for submitting bug reports.

This manual was originally written by Szabolcs (Shooby) Ban () and Dan Mueth (). It has been rewritten (strongly based on the original) by Emese Kovacs () to reflect changes from v1.2 to v1.4. The Technical Information section has been added by Alexander Kirillov (). Please send all comments and suggestions regarding this manual to the GNOME Documentation Project by sending an email to . You can also submit comments online by using the GNOME Documentation Status Table.