Question: Hebrew input support in X

ori — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:46:56 -0800

How do I add a foreign language (Hebrew) input to X, and how do I switch keyboard layouts? This was easy to set up in Gnome and KDE, but I've since left those for Fluxbox, which doesn't (seem to) have a proprietary configurator. I'm running Debian/Testing, xorg 6.8.2dfsg.

By: ori

ori — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:01:01 -0800

Well, nevermind. A bit of RTFMing and I figured it out. For reference, I had to change my "input" section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to look something like this:

Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier  "keyboard0"

    Driver      "keyboard"

    Option      "XkbLayout"  "us,il"

    Option "XKbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"

EndSection

I can now switch between a US English keyboard layout and a Hebrew one using alt+shift.

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