Gnome language layouts, multiple desktops,

[Dotan Cohen]

Hi all, KDE user spending a week in Gnome.

1) When I configured the keyboard layouts for two languages,
everything worked fine. After restarting the computer, the keyboard
shortcut does not change layouts. However, it is properly configured
already when I try to configure it in Keyboard Preferences -> Layouts.
Furthermore, clicking in the indicator to switch languages does in
fact change the language listed in the indicator, however, the typing
is in English no matter which layout the indicator shows.

2) In what may be a related issue, Sticky Keys does not work after
restarting the computer either, even though it is properly configured.

3) Is there no Krunner equivalent in Gnome? In KDE, the user can press
Alt-F2 then type in the name of the program that he needs to run. I
have installed Gnome Do but I cannot seem to bind it to a keyboard
shortcut.

4) I cannot find where to configure a single desktop as opposed to the
two that Gnome gives me as default. Clicking Preferences from the
desktop pager applet does not give me an option to change the amount
of desktops, nor does anywhere else in the menus that I can find.
Googling leads me to believe that it _should_ be in the applet but it
is not. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks.

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