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International Language Environments Guide for Oracle Solaris 11.1 Oracle Solaris 11.1 Information Library |
2. Unicode and UTF-8 Locale Support
3. Working with Languages and Locales
4. Desktop Keyboard Preferences and Input Methods
About Keyboard Layout and Input Method Settings
Keyboard Layout Selection in GNOME Desktop Manager
How to Select the Keyboard Layout in GNOME Desktop Manager
How to Activate and Deactivate Input Methods
How to Change Input Method Framework in Trusted Extensions
Language Engines Available on the IBus Input Method Framework
Input Method for Indic Languages
IBus Virtual Keyboard (ibus-keyboard)
Internet Intranet Input Method Framework
How to Use the ATOK and Wnn Language Engines With IIIMF
How to Set Keyboard Preferences and Customization
Keyboard Layout Options and Default Behavior
How to Add and Remove Keyboard Layouts
How to Add EuroSign to Certain Keys
How to Set Key Sequence to Kill the X Server
How to Set a Keyboard Shortcut to Switch Between Selected Keyboard Layouts
GNOME Keyboard Layout Indicator (Keyboard Selector)
You can use the setxkbmap(1), a command to set and customize all keyboard layout settings in the X Server from the command line rather than using the GNOME Keyboard Layout Preference tool.
The setxkbmap command maps the keyboard to use the keyboard layout determined by the options specified on the command line. Configurable options of the setxkbmap command include geometry, keyboard model, layout symbols, layout variant, rules, and the like.
The following example shows how to set two keyboard layouts (US/English and French) from the command line:
$ /usr/bin/setxkbmap us,fr
For more information, see the setxkbmap(1) man page.