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NotifyOSD notification when I change keyboard layout in Ubuntu 12.04?
I would like to have a NotifyOSD notification appear whenever I change keyboard layouts. Does anybody know how I can implement this feature?
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Using CapsLock to switch the keyboard language layout
Currently I am using Recaps for switching between keyboard layouts. But I am looking for a replacement, because it is a little buggy and not updated for years. Do you know any replacement?
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How can I type in Hangul Korean?
I use Windows XP and my default languages when I bought this laptop were English and Persian.
Recently I've been learning Hangul Korean. I don't have a Hangul layout, but I really need to type in ...
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How to define custom keys in a keyboard - Windows
I am using a laptop having Windows Vista. It lacks a numpad. But I want a numpad, without having an external keyboard, for some reason. I have a Fn key for special functions like screen brightness, ...
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Mac has wrong Spanish keyboard layout
My Mac has the wrong layout for the Spanish keyboard.
Layout Mac thinks my keyboard is:
Expected Spanish ISO layout:
As you can see from the images - the layouts are different. For example, ...
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How do you catch and change keyboard characters with python?
I wanted to make silly custom keyboards, that would translate keystrokes to equivalents in silly alphabets (leetspeek, Cyrillic transliterations, upside-down characters..), but that turned out to be ...
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Mimicing Mac-style command/alt/control keys in Linux
I absolutely love that Mac separates the command key from the control key, allowing OS shortcuts and text shortcuts to co-exist. It's incredibly useful, especially because it allows emacs shortcuts ...
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How do I configure keyboard layouts in Ubuntu 12.04?
Ubuntu has moved to HAL, and commented out the keyboard section in xorg.conf. This means that GNOME keyboard layout tool no longer works outside of GNOME (I don't remember if it did before, but the ...
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Keyboard layout automatically changed
My keyboard layout changed by itself. The functionality of Ctrl and the Fn keys swapped, the functionality of Delete and Pause keys swapped and my arrow keys have an added functionality of controlling ...
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Corupted keyboard layout
When I try to add Persian keyboard layout on my Windows 7 x64, the keyboard doesn't show up in the language bar. For example, when I add English, Arabic, and Persian keyboard layouts as shown in the ...
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Remapping SHIFT + SPACE to an underscore (_)
I found this question and was so excited when I found out I could remap my whole keyboard with a really simple Microsoft product called Keyboard Layout Creator.
My problem: Keyboard Layout Creator ...
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Setting Hyper and Super modifiers for certain keys with setxkbmap or xmodmap
Problem: I want to modify/redefine my keyboard layout (pc105 se) so that when I press certain keys with mod3 (super) and mod4 (hyper), a different character is returned than usual.
E.g.
Keycode 61 ...
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Display a permanent OSD
Is there any way to have a permanent static translucent OSD somewhere on my screen? I'm looking for an overlay that I cannot interact with so I can still use whatever is behind it.
What I am trying ...
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Mac OS X change of modifier keys depending on current application
I would like to swap the control key with the command key, but only while in a given application.
I saw this but it works globally.
This seems also to work on a global level, although I am not as ...
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Right Windows key on steelseries keyboard doesn't open Unity dash when pressed
I recently purchased a steelseries keyboard. This keyboard has a steelseries key instead of a left Windows key, so I'm unable to open the Unity dash in Ubuntu 11.10 by pressing the left Windows key as ...
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Japanese keyboard layout in Windows 7 doesn't correspond to what's written on the physical keyboard
I have an English version of Windows 7, but my keyboard is Japanese.
However, even though I choose a Japanese keyboard (Microsoft IME) under Keyboard and Languages, the layout isn't right. I think ...
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Pressing the tilde key (~) waits for a second key stroke, how do I disable this?
When pressing tilde in Windows 7, using a Swedish keyboard layout, the computer waits for a second key to be pressed. The reason behind the wait is to allow users the ability to construct characters ...
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How to remap control keys in MS Layout Creator
edit: I successfully user KeyTweak to remap the keys. However doing so remaps them for all keyboard layouts. Is there a way to remap them only for my custom layout (created, as I said earlier, with MS ...
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Changing keyboard layouts in Xubuntu with certain keyboard combination
I've recently moved from Ubuntu 10.10 to Xubuntu 11.10.
I've found a script to toggle keyboard layouts via a certain key combination. You have to specify the combination to toggle the layout ...
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Add keyboard layout in BT5 KDE
I've just installed BackTrack 5 KDE ,I'm searching for hours how can I add keyboard layout and I failed !
anyone has an idea ?
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How to calculate the ideal keyboard layout for programmers?
I'm thinking about creating a new keyboard layout for programming. Now I mostly program in HTML, JavaScript/jQuery/CoffeeScript, CSS/LESS/SASS, though I may dabble in shell scripting & RegEx ...
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Keyboard layout: why still the same? [closed]
Why keyboard layout is still tha same since the typing machines ?
I mean, why the sequence '' Q W E R T Y U '' ? Why not in alphabetical order ?
Are QWERTY the best layout ?
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windows misconfigured keyboard after installing usb keyboard
have a dell vostro 1520, installed an external usb keyboard which works fine but the laptop's keyboard does not work properly.
in the log in screen everything works as it should, once logged in the ...
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I would like to edit the layout of my keyboard just a bit - what's the best way?
I'm using an Apple keyboard which has some annoyances compared to other keyboards. Namely, the Alt_L and Super_L keys are swapped, and the bar and less keys are swapped ("|" and "<").
I've written ...
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Swap Ctrl with a character key in xkb
I'm currently trying to remap my H key (<AC06>) to act like the Ctrl key.
I added the following in the /usr/.../xkb/symbols/us file:
key <AC06> { [ Control_L, Control_L ] };
It seemed ...
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Super Key over SSH
I connect to a headless Ubuntu server (no X) over SSH and run Emacs. In my ~/.emacs file I have defined a keyboard shortcut using the 's' (Super) modifier. This shortcut works when I run Emacs in a ...
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How to make Windows 7 fit my japanese MacbookPro keyboard layout?
I have a japanese MacbookPro. The keyboard looks like this :
I installed a japanese Windows 7 on it, using Bootcamp.
Under Windows 7, the keyboard layout is not correct.
For example, when I press ...
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How to make a tilde on a spanish keyboard set to English?
That's right. I bought a Spanish computer, and set it to English. And I can't find the tilde.
This is Mac OS X
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configure qtnx for a French keyboard layout
I use the qtnx client to connect to a NX technology remote desktop server.
Unfortunately with my French keyboard layout (azerty-like) some keys such as AltGr do not work. This means I cannot type ...
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AutoHotKey script for switching option and command keys on Mac?
Does anyone have an AutoHotkey Script to switch to remap the command key to the option key and the control key to the command key on a Mac keyboard?
Thanks!
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Learn to use both sides of the keyboard
I'd like to force myself to use the correct (right side or left side) Shift, Ctrl, and Alt keys depending on what letter I'm typing. For instance I'd like to use the right Shift key when typing 'A' ...
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My 'c' character won't type on my computer but typing a capital 'C' works fine (Windows 7)
I have a weird problem that I have never encountered before. This problem is intermittent with no discernible trigger.
Hitting the 'c' on my keyboard does not produce the 'c' character on my screen ...
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Russian language automatically loads on windows 7 startup [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Russian Language in windows 7
i am using windows 7 ultimate edition.
I did a fresh installation. And only programs I installed is Gameranger and silverlight.
Now when ...
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Are there any keyboards available with a physical qwerty-dvorak switch?
I'm looking for a keyboard, (preferably mechanical) that I can use at work that has a physical switch that switches between Dvorak and qwerty. I've been told that these exist but I'm having a ...
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How to change keyboard layout via command line cmd.exe on Windows XP/7?
Is is possible to change the keyboard layout via command line on Windows XP/7?
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MacBook (OS X 10.6): how to change US English keyboard layout back to normal
I'm using a MacBook with Snow Leopard. For some reason, I have accidentally enabled Japanese keyboard support (Kotoeri). Now, having disabled it, I face the following problem: My US English keyboard ...
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What is the preferred layout/key-mapping for a programmer's keyboard? [closed]
The standard keyboard layout is not ideal for programmers. In particular, the caps-lock key and the right Alt (Alt Gr) keys appear to be useless.
Is there a better key-mapping that I could use?
FYI: ...
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OS X ignores alt+3 for # [closed]
On my Mac I cannot type the number sign (#) anymore. No matter what application is running alt+3 is no more working. Any ideas how to reactivate it?
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How do I map the <compose> key to <esc> in vim?
I currently have my capslock key bound to [compose] using xmodmap. Compose is good when typing scientific stuff, as I can quickly write things like 275°K.
But it's not useful when programming. When I ...
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Desktop keyboard behaves as on a Notebook
On a Desktop PC running Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit), I have recently installed a Microsoft CIR receiver (designed for WinXP MCE). Whilst the receiver works as expected with both WMC remote and ...
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Dead key sequence for quotes works oddly in Eclipse in MacOS X
I'm using an US-International Keyboard in MacOS.
The normal behavior for dead keys in every application is, for example, if I press the key sequence ', it understands that the comma doesn't carry ...
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How do I stop OS X from automatically inserting closing quotes?
I have recently inherited a MacBook Pro from a colleague who has left the company. One of the annoying features that they had set up is that in every window/application that I can type the system will ...
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Where are Space and BackSpace defined?
I would like to put the right-arrow key on Ctrl-Space and Ctrl-BackSpace to see if that is comfortable for keeping me on / close to home row when I'm not in VIM. Here is the top stanza of my ...
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Using Ctrl-Alt for AltGr
On Windows, Ctrl-Alt is mapped to AltGr, but not so on Linux..
Using AltGr for 3rd level keys is wrist-killer nr. 1! I'm unable to find a workaround that doesn't remove other functionality I use (the ...
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What is the “Super key” on a Windows laptop keyboard?
At the bottom of this page https://github.com/Paaskehare/pastebin-sublime-plugin it says
Select some text (or dont) and hit Super + M and afterwards Ctrl + V - and you're good to go!
What is the ...
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Windows swap keyboard mapping of @ (at) symbol and " (quote)
I've recently moved to France from the UK and have a UK QWERTY keyboard, but certain symbols have been swapped such as the at symbol and the double quote. I'm using Windows 7 French version, with the ...
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“Not switching” keyboard layout in Windows XP
I'm using three keyboard layouts under Windows XP: USA, Italian and Russian. The problem is simple - when I resize the taskbar, I'm unable to switch my layout with shortcut and clicking on it neither. ...
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Are there ASCII characters that have the same keyboard input for both PC and Mac?
I'm finding that using ASCII characters between windows and OSX is very cumbersome because it seems all the PC codes use the keypad, and the Mac doesn't.
Are there any characters, at all, that I can ...
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Keyboard layout configuration in MAC OSX is being very buggy
I'm using an apple keyboard (not sure which country it's supposed to be, but the `/~ key is next to the shift key). I'm experiencing a number of problems, which I think are related
Pressing the `/~ ...
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Is it possible to unmap option+<character> in the US keyboard layout for OS X?
The US keyboard layout in OS X has a mapping for every option+character. For example option+a is å, option+b is ∫. I never use these. Some applications would use them if they weren't already mapped ...
