Hey Mark; hot enough for you? On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: > I need to type some German documents, so I would like to use a German > keyboard. My daughter's Mac had a nifty gadget that allows her to switch her > keyboard from English to Spanish when she types papers in Spanish. It has a > cute little Spanish flag on her menu bar and it also popped up a keyboard > map so she could see where the extra accented keys were located when she > typed in Spanish. Is there something similar for Gnome/Debian testing? > Yes nice Gnome Keyboard with applied Keyboard mistakes: "Gnome pegboard" often rescued to use kezboard, keyboard indicator), http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.30/ > I can switch the keyboard using System->Preferences->Keyboard to a German > keyboard, but I would like a visual representation of the keyboard to know > where the keys are located (ie qwerty is actually qwertz on a German > kezboard=. There is supposed to be a gnome applet called keyboard > indicator, but I can't seem to find it on my system or find it in the > Debian repository. The references I have seen are to click on a a panel and > select "keyboard indicator" to install it....but I ain't got one of those > darn things as an option! Very frustrating! > "Keyboard indicator" is included in 2.30 and later. > > Thanks! > > Mark > > -- Office: (602)239-3392 AT&T: (503)754-4452 http://it-clowns.com "Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. " --Stanislav Lem