Keyboard shortcuts don't work in different layouts

[Basil Fowler]

On Sunday 10 Jan 2010 16:36:04 George wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Bogus Zaba <bogsub at bogzab.plus.com> wrote:
> > So now whenever I switch keyboard language, I re-run the above command
> > and regain my shortcuts.
> 
> Since I frequently need to change keyboard layouts multiple times
> within the same sentence, doing this manually is not an option. Can I
> do it automatically, through a script or something like that?

Anything can be scripted, and scripted conveniently with kdialog. I have a 
similar problem for my guest accounts. Sometimes they are run on the main 
computer, sometimes on the X client computer (eccles). The former runs 
Mandriva 2010.0, and the latter RedHat 7.1 (that distro works better on the 
ancient but functional hardware of the X client). 

My guests use various keyboard layouts. However, the keyboard layout files for 
the Mandriva X server are different from the RedHat X server. So what I did 
was to compile the keyboard driver files for the RedHat X server, transferred 
them to the Mandriva computer and provided the following script that is called 
by clicking on a desktop icon. A dialog box appears, and on selecting the 
required language, the appropriate driver file is loaded according to which 
machine the guest is using.

This does not cover your problem directly, but shows a possible approach.

Basil Fowler

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Here beginneth the script (kept in the $HOME/bin directory):

#!/bin/bash

# selects and loads a keyboard layout

# put up a dialogue box and return action tokens 
layout=$(kdialog --geometry=175x180		\
	--caption "Keyboard"                    \
	--menu "Select a layout"  		\
	"1"  "English"      			\
	"2"  "French" 				\
	"3"  "Hungarian" 			\
	"4"  "Portuguese"		--	)
	 

# establish which button was clicked
button_id=$?

if [ $button_id -eq 0 ]   
then
	if [[ ${DISPLAY} =~ ^eccles ]] 
	then
		# use files suitable for RH 7
		basedir="/usr/share/X11/xkb/eccles-xkb-files"
		case $layout in
			"1")	xkbcomp "$basedir/eccles-gb.xkm" $DISPLAY ;;
			"2") 	xkbcomp "$basedir/eccles-fr.xkm" $DISPLAY ;;
			"3")	xkbcomp "$basedir/eccles-hu.xkm" $DISPLAY ;;
			"4")	xkbcomp "$basedir/eccles-pt.xkm" $DISPLAY ;;
		esac
	else
		# use 2010.0 files
		fixedparms="-model pc105 -layout"
		case $layout in
			"1")	setxkbmap $fixedparms gb ;;
			"2") 	setxkbmap $fixedparms fr ;;
			"3")	setxkbmap $fixedparms hu ;;
			"4")	setxkbmap $fixedparms pt ;;
		esac

	fi
fi	
	
# end
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