[FreeNX-kNX] Keyboard layout

[Yang Zhang]

David Mohr wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Yang Zhang <yanghatespam at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, I frequently switch between (US English) qwerty and dvorak keyboard
>> layouts, on both my Windows laptop (NX client) and my GNOME Ubuntu
>> workstation (FreeNX server). However, I find that I can't seem to get a
>> Dvorak layout when using NX - hitting the hotkey that normally switches
>> my Windows keyboard layout doesn't do anything for the NX window. Ditto
>> with the hotkey that switches my GNOME keyboard layout.
>>
>> Any hints on how I might go about getting Dvorak? Thanks in advance!
> 
> I have a little script which works just fine for me to switch between
> us and dvorak layouts in NX:
> 
> ---SNIP---
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> DVORAK=`setxkbmap -print | grep dvorak`
> XMM="xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap"
> OPTS="-model pc105 -rules xorg -option lv3:ralt_switch -option eurosign:e"
> VARIANT="'intl,winkeys'"
> DV="setxkbmap $OPTS -layout dvorak"
> US="setxkbmap $OPTS -layout us"
> BASENAME=`basename $0`
> 
> if [ "$BASENAME" == "keyb-us" ]; then
>     $US
>     $XMM
>     exit 0
> fi
> if [ "$BASENAME" == "keyb-dv" ]; then
>     $DV
>     $XMM
>     exit 0
> fi
> 
> if [ -z "$DVORAK" ]; then
>     $DV
> else
>     $US
> fi
> $XMM
> ---SNAP---
> 
> Usually I save it as `switch-layouts'. When called by that name it
> will toggle between us and dvorak, and then I symlink keyb-dv and
> keyb-us to it, for when I just want to get one of the layouts.
> 
> ~David
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Thanks, this pointed me to the right solution - a simple 'setxkbmap 
dvorak' on the server works for me.
-- 
Yang Zhang
http://www.mit.edu/~y_z/