I am currently switching often between the US and the German keyboard layout.
I found also a great solution for it, so I can easily change the layouts during writing.
Do it like that:
- –>Configure Desktop
- –>Regional & Lanugage
- –>Keyboard Layout
- –>Layout
- –>Enable keyboard layouts
- –>Add the wanted keyboard layouts into the “Active layouts” section
- –>Apply
- –>Configure Desktop
- –>Keyboard & Mouse
- –>Global Keyboard Shortcuts
- –>set the KDE component to “KDE Keyboard Layout Switcher”
- –>Switch to Next Keyboard Layout
- –>set “Custom” and klick on the button right next to it and press the wanted shortcut combination
- –>Apply
And now you can change the keyboard layout easily during writing.
Have Phun.
October 5, 2009 at 04:22
I have to change languages very often too, but isn’t the keyboard shortcut set to CTRL-ALT-K by default? Maybe that default is only set by KDE.
Anyway, if somebody finds a way of making the automatic spell checker automatically recognise which layout you’re typing in, and use the relevant language, I’d like to hear about that!
Steve
October 5, 2009 at 15:20
yes, could be that the default setting is CTRL+ATL+K, but in my opinion it is during writing a bit inconvenient, because you need two hands for that, for me was CTRL+ALT+Q easier.
Sebastian
October 13, 2009 at 13:55
I use capslock key for switch languages english/russian
Shift+CapsLock used for caps function
Also set capslock and scrolllock LEDs to ON when secondary layout/language enabled.
PS I use GNOME but I think you can use this settings in KDE
October 13, 2009 at 15:15
probably yes, you can use it, another opportunity would also be the scroll mouse wheel, but I can’t use that all the time, because I don’t have all the time a mouse at my laptop
October 5, 2009 at 07:56
Automatic language detection was planned early on for KDE 4’s Sonnet spellchecking system, but the guy who was developing it vanished without a trace. His blog is still up though:
http://blog.jacobrideout.net/search/label/sonnet
October 13, 2009 at 19:12
gxneur ?
http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=ALL&p=1&q=gxneur