--- On Fri 05/18, Ryan Pavlik < abiryan@ryand.net > wrote:
<br>It's confusing (and I've filed a bug on it) but to change keyboard <br>layouts _you must add the Keyboard Indicator applet to your panel_. If <br>you don't run gnome-panel, I'm not sure how you'd do it (perhaps just <br>run gnome-panel once to be able to add that applet and switch layouts) - <br>there may be a similar applet for XFCE.<br><br>Ryan<br><br>
Ok, I've added the Keyboard Indicator applets in both GNOME and XFCE. In GNOME, there are two applets on the panel. One says USA, and the other looks like a keyboard-- I clicked on it and saw a pull-down menu with languages--once. Then it stopped working. When I click on it, nothing happens, no pulldown menu appears, and the other still says USA.
I can right-click to open SCIM, where I can enable and disable the different layouts. They are all enabled by default.
In XFCE, it's similar. I have a US flag that I click on, and nothing happens.
[edit] Ok, here's the procedure:
Right-click the keyboard layout switcher applet--the one that says USA or is a flag, NOT the one that looks like a keyboard.
In the pulldown menu, select preferences.
In the dialog that opens, click the Layouts tab.
Click the "+ADD" button.
In the dialog that opens, scroll down the menu on the left and select the language you want.
Click OK.
You're back to the first dialog, Select a default if you like, and click Close.
Now you can toggle back and forth by clicking the Keyboard Switcher applet. I believe you can also open up Preferences again, and click on the Layout Options tab to select a key to use for switching.
Open up Abiword, and when you use the non-US keyboard, all you see is dots on the screen. In OpenOffice 2.2, the characters appear as expected.
I still can't use Abiword for Thai, but at least I can use Open Office. I'm ok with using OO every once in awhile for certain things, and Abiword as the main workhorse. If you want to have only Abiword, then a fix is still needed. I will continue to poke around.
_PD
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