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    Switching keyboard layouts

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by zephyrus17, Oct 26, 2008.

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    If there's one thing that bothers me more, it's that Gnome's handling of layout switching is horrendous. I personally use the Dvorak layout, so I add a second layout that follows the qwerty style so when my friends are over, they can use the keyboard as usual as well.

    But, not all the layout switching works. Like 'pressing both Alt keys together' never worked for me. And after a while the qwerty one, named "USA" in the keyboard settings would become "USAz" and it'll be all weird.

    Is it me doing something wrong? Because I'm pretty annoyed that Windows can do this much better than Gnome can.
     
    zephyrus17, Oct 26, 2008
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