Bug 662574

The necessary setup is described in the LXDE wiki, what else do you think I can do?

hello Christoph.  This link http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Change_keyboard_layouts did not help me at all (but it was informative).  It was a problem for me at the time, because I wanted to use LXDE (and not Gnome anymore), but I needed 2 keyboard layouts (eng-fra) and I did not know how to do it.  Luckily, a more experienced user answered my question in an easy to understand manner (link) http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1810.

Maybe, giving the complete commands to change keyboard layouts in the Wiki, would quickly help other end users solving their problem?

I have read many threads about the same issue (not Fedora specific, but lxde related).

In my opinion, I would edit the wiki to give the proper commands directly, and how to make this command permanent. It would quickly help any other end users solving their problem; so they wouldn't give up and left LXDE with the bitter feeling that LXDE is for experts, or that is not ready/easy, etc.

In the Wiki:

Give the common language codes (I don't know them, so it's just indicative):

French keyboard > fr
English keyboard > eng
Swiss-French keyboard > ch(fr)
German keyboard > de
Japaneses kyboard > jp
etc.

Then give the full command, and instruct the user to change it with his default language and the second layout keyboard he needs.

e.g. to add a second keyboard layout, pass this command (as a user, not as root):

$ setxkbmap -layout "1*,2*" -option "grp:alt_shift_toggle"

*1=input your default language keyboard (see language codes above)
*2=input the second default layout (see language codes above)

The command is not permanent.  If you want to make it permanent, copy the command

setxkbmap -layout "1*,2*" -option "grp:alt_shift_toggle" at the end of the file

at the end of the file

/home/user/.bashrc

Trust me, most of the end users (me included) get completely lost when they have chose what file to use (./bashrc, or ./profile, or ./bash_profile, etc.) - well, now I know the difference :)

log-out/log-in.

(end)

in addition, I would also give the some other key mapping options (alt_shift_toggle, is not very convenient for me because many other applications already use 'shift'+'alt' key mapping).  I did not find the way to modify the keys mapping yet (and I did not really have time to search how to do it).

I am not sure if the preceding make sens to you?  I am aware it is very (very) low level.  But after installing Lxde F-13 I felt relieve in a way, but I another way, I needed to address this simple issue (this is not hardware specific,vjust a setting) in a simple and easy way.  I am probably not the only one.  the wiki was to general and vague for my level of expertise.  I needed the command + the language code (e.g. ch(fr)) at once.

I hope my (long) comment may help.  Thank you for LXDE Spin Fedora by the way.

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