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KKBSwitch - a keyboard layout indicator for TDE.
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KKBSwitch displays an icon in the system tray that indicates which
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layout is currently active and enables you to switch layouts by clicking
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the icon or by selecting from the menu.
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It is useful when you have configured the XKeyboard extension of your
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Xorg Server to have more than one keyboard group, for example US/ASCII
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and Russian. It displays an icon in the system tray that indicates which
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layout is currently active. Note that KKBSwitch does not help you
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configure XKeyboard, it merely serves as the indicator of the current
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group.
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Features include:
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- displays an icon in the system tray indicating the active keyboard
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group.
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- Configurable icons for the keyboard layouts (chosen from country flag
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pixmaps that ship with TDE).
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- The "toggle mode" to toggle between the two most recently-used
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keyboard layouts.
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- Choose to use a global layout, a per-application layout or
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a per-window layout.
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- Configurable keyboard shortcuts.
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NB: You still have to configure XKeyboard with the usual xorg options
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(XkbModel, XkbLayout, XkbVariant and XkbOptions).
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Using KKBSwicth.
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The most basic usage is simply to let it sit in the system tray and show
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you which keyboard group is currently active. You can also click the
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KKBSwicth system tray icon to switch keyboard layouts.
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When right-clicked, the system tray icon displays a menu with the
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following entries:
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- one or more entries corresponding to the configured keyboard groups
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(XKeyboard can have up to 4 groups configured). The currently active
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group will be checked.
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Selecting a menu entry corresponding to a group will make that group
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active.
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- "Configure Keyboard Switch..." entry lets you configure KKBSwitch
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- "About Keyboard Switch" displays a standard "About" dialog
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- "Quit" quits KKBSwitch.
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Configuring KKBSwicth.
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In the KKBSwitch configuration dialog you can do the following:
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- set the icons corresponding to the available keyboard groups. Note
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that KKBSwitch will try hard to guess the correct icon based on the name
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of the keyboard group (the names are configured in XKeyboard).
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For example, it will display the US flag for US/ASCII group, German flag
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for German group, Russian flag for Russian group, etc. If it cannot
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guess an icon, it will display the "default" icon, which simply shows
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the group's number. Use the configuration dialog to customize the icons:
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- select a group in the "Available keyboard groups" listbox, and click
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"Change icon..." button. You will be able to select from the list of
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country flag pixmaps that is shipped with TDE.
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- turn the "Toggle mode" on and off. "Toggle mode" is a convient feature
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of KKBSwitch, which is useful if you have more than 2 groups.
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When "Toggle mode" is on, pressing the XKeyboard's group switch key or
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clicking KKBSwitch's tray icon will toggle between the two most recently
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used groups. To activate the third or the fourth (if available) group
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you'll need to right-click KKBSwitch's tray icon and select the desired
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group from the menu. For example, I have US/ASCII, Russian and Ukrainian
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layouts configured. Most of the time I use either US/ASCII or Russian
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layout and switch back and forth between them without activating the
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rarely needed Ukrainian layout. But sometimes I need to write something
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in Ukrainian, so I select this layout from the tray icon's menu. When
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"Toggle mode" is on, the two most recently used groups will be marked
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with an asterisk in the KKBSwitch tray icon's menu.
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DCOP Bindings
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As of version 0.2, KKBSwitch can be manipulated programmatically with
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DCOP. It exports an interface named KBSwitchIntf.
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The interfaces offers the following methods:
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- int getNumKbdGroups() returns the number of configured keyboard
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groups (layouts)
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- ASYNC selectNextGroup() does the same thing as clicking on the
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KKBSwitch's tray icon, i.e. makes the next keyboard group active.
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If in "toggle mode", toggles between the two recently used ones, just
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like clicking on the tray icon does.
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- ASYNC selectGroup(int groupno) makes the group whose number is
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groupno active (like selecting a group from the tray icon popup menu)
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- TQStringList getGroupNames() returns the list of the keyboard group
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names as configured in XKeyboard.
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