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  <info>

    <link type="guide" xref="prefs-language"/>

    <link type="guide" xref="keyboard" group="i18n"/>

    <link type="guide" xref="keyboard-shortcuts-set"/>

    <revision pkgversion="3.8" version="0.3" date="2013-04-30" status="review"/>

    <revision pkgversion="3.10" date="2013-10-28" status="review"/>

    <revision pkgversion="3.13.92" date="2014-09-22" status="review"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">

      <name>Shaun McCance</name>

      <email>shaunm@gnome.org</email>

      <years>2012</years>

    </credit>

    <credit type="author">

       <name>Julita Inca</name>

       <email>yrazes@gmail.com</email>

    </credit>

    <credit type="editor">

      <name>Michael Hill</name>

      <email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>

    </credit>

    <credit type="editor">

      <name>Juanjo Marín</name>

      <email>juanj.marin@juntadeandalucia.es</email>

    </credit>

    <credit type="editor">

      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>

      <email>kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>

      <years>2013</years>

    </credit>

    <include xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="legal.xml"/>

    <desc>Add keyboard layouts and switch between them.</desc>

  </info>

  <title>Use alternative keyboard layouts</title>

  
Keyboards come in hundreds of different layouts for different languages.

  Even for a single language, there are often multiple keyboard layouts, such

  as the Dvorak layout for English. You can make your keyboard behave like a

  keyboard with a different layout, regardless of the letters and symbols

  printed on the keys. This is useful if you often switch between multiple

  languages.

  <steps>

    <item>

      
Åbn <gui xref="shell-introduction#activities">Aktivitetsoversigten</gui> og begynd at skrive <gui>Region & sprog</gui>.

    </item>

    <item>

      
Click on <gui>Region & Language</gui> to open the panel.

    </item>

    <item>

      
Click the <gui>+</gui> button in the <gui>Input Sources</gui> section,

      select the language which is associated with the layout, then select a

      layout and press <gui>Add</gui>.

    </item>

  </steps>

  <note style="tip">

    
If there are multiple user accounts on your system, there is a separate

    instance of the <gui>Region & Language</gui> panel for the login screen.

    Click the <gui>Login Screen</gui> button at the top right to toggle between

    the two instances.

    
Some rarely used keyboard layout variants are not available by default when you click

    the <gui>+</gui> button. To make also those input sources available you can open a terminal

    window by pressing <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>Alt</key><key>T</key></keyseq>

    and run this command:

    
<cmd its:translate="no">gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources show-all-sources true</cmd>

  </note>

  <note style="sidebar">

    
You can preview an image of any layout by selecting it in the list of

    <gui>Input Sources</gui> and clicking

    <gui><media its:translate="no" type="image" src="figures/input-keyboard-symbolic.png" width="16" height="16">preview</media></gui>

  </note>

  
Certain languages offer some extra configuration options. You can

  identify those languages because they have a

  <gui><media its:translate="no" type="image" src="figures/system-run-symbolic.svg" width="16" height="16">preview</media></gui> icon next to them. If you want to access

  these extra parameters, select the language from the <gui>Input Source</gui>

  list and a new

  <gui style="button"><media its:translate="no" type="image" src="figures/emblem-system-symbolic.svg" width="16" height="16">preferences</media></gui> button will give you access

  to the extra settings.

  
When you use multiple layouts, you can choose to have all windows use the

  same layout or to set a different layout for each window. Using a different

  layout for each window is useful, for example, if you’re writing an article

  in another language in a word processor window. Your keyboard selection will

  be remembered for each window as you switch between windows. Press the

  <gui style="button">Options</gui> button to select how you want to manage

  multiple layouts.

  
The top bar will display a short identifier for the current layout, such as

  <gui>en</gui> for the standard English layout. Click the layout indicator and

  select the layout you want to use from the menu. If the selected language has

  any extra settings, they will be shown below the list of available layouts.

  This gives you a quick overview of your settings. You can also open an image

  with the current keyboard layout for reference.

  
The fastest way to change to another layout is by using the 

  <gui>Input Source</gui> <gui>Keyboard Shortcuts</gui>. These shortcuts open 

  the <gui>Input Source</gui> chooser where you can move forward and backward. 

  By default, you can switch to the next input source with 

  <keyseq><key xref="keyboard-key-super">Super</key><key>Space</key></keyseq>

  and to the previous one with

  <keyseq><key>Shift</key><key>Super</key><key>Space</key></keyseq>. You can

  change these shortcuts in the <gui>Keyboard</gui> settings.

  
<media type="image" src="figures/input-methods-switcher.png"/>

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