"Key switches keyboard layout while pressed" -- how?

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Mon Jan 29 14:05:32 UTC 2007


D. Michael McIntyre wrote:

> On Thursday 25 January 2007 6:15 pm, Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
>> > KDE.  I have no idea why.  As you say, the checkboxes are there; they
>> > just don't work.
>>
>> Worked for me...
> 
> I've always wondered if it has something to do with my keyboard perchance.
>  I
> have an old keyboard I've been typing on since 1991.  One of the original
> Microsoft Natural keyboards, with all the keycaps worn down almost to nubs
> and about 10,000,000 words on it.

It shouldn't - since the "command" field is just a setxkbmap command (which
you could paste into a terminal session), then if you can make it work
directly, it should work in KDE.  If it isn't working in KDE, it must not
even be attempting to execute that command.
-- 
derek





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