Shaun McCanceshaunm@gnome.org2012Julita Incayrazes@gmail.comMichael Hillmdhillca@gmail.comJuanjo Marínjuanj.marin@juntadeandalucia.esEkaterina Gerasimovakittykat3756@gmail.com2013Add keyboard layouts and switch between them.Use alternative keyboard layouts
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.
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Click on Region & Language to open the panel.
Click the + button in the Input Sources section,
select the language which is associated with the layout, then select a
layout and press Add.
If there are multiple user accounts on your system, there is a separate
instance of the Region & Language panel for the login screen.
Click the Login Screen 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 + button. To make also those input sources available you can open a terminal
window by pressing CtrlAltT
and run this command:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources show-all-sources true
You can preview an image of any layout by selecting it in the list of
Input Sources and clicking
preview
Certain languages offer some extra configuration options. You can
identify those languages because they have a
preview icon next to them. If you want to access
these extra parameters, select the language from the Input Source
list and a new
preferences 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
Options button to select how you want to manage
multiple layouts.
The top bar will display a short identifier for the current layout, such as
en 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
Input SourceKeyboard Shortcuts. These shortcuts open
the Input Source chooser where you can move forward and backward.
By default, you can switch to the next input source with
SuperSpace
and to the previous one with
ShiftSuperSpace. You can
change these shortcuts in the Keyboard settings.