usb external keyboard with alternative layout

[lugburz]

Hi all, I have installed FC11 on a laptop with italian keyboard layout. I have also an external keyboard with standard US layout. Is it possible to have the two keyboard (the main laptop keyboard and etxernal usb keyboard) working with different layout?

thanks

[saludan]

sure it is you just add a new layout and add the little icon that let you switch from a layout to an other ;)

fedora (http://www.linux-archive.org/fedora-user/)

[lugburz]

the gnome applet doesn't work very well: often after I have selected the US layout, switching to a different window, or opening a new one, the default layout is restored. I really like something more related to HAL daemon, capable to setup the layout of the evdev device.

[DavidMcCann]

Look at System-Preferences-Hardware-keyboard in the menu. In the Layouts tab, "separate layout for each window" is set as the default, so just unset it.

[lugburz]

I already have this value unset. The applet continues to switch back to the italian layout in a not reproducible way: sometime opening a new windows, sometimes don't, sometime starting to write an e-mail, sometime don't... boring...

for this reason I like to have a script that related with the evdev or hal daemons swicths the keyboard layout plugging, or unplugging, the external usb keyboard.

[lugburz]

Looking better in the applet I found the keyboard layout set to "evdev managed". I switched to "Generic 105" and now the layout after the changes seems to be stable, at least in the last 20 minutes