The K Desktop Environment

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4. Personal Configuration

Personal configuration includes all your runtime settings for KiKbd. You should use the kcmikbd program for creating/modifing your personal configuration. When you start KiKbd or kcmikbd for the first time it will copy the default system configuration to your personal configuration.

4.1 General settings

Keyboards

Using the Add and Delete buttons you can create/update your personal list of national keyboards. The top most keyboard (En in the example on the screen shot shown) becomes the default keyboard when you start KiKbd.

If you use more then two keyboards it is very helpful to check the Use hotlist box. In this case you can switch between the hot keyboard and the default keyboard by using the Switch key(s) while you can change the hot keyboard from the KiKbd pop up menu.

Switch and Alt Switch

For switching between keyboards you can use this key combination (in the example screen shot, by holding Right Ctrl and Right Shift down at the same time). You can type any alternate symbols defined for the current national keyboard by holding down the Alt Switch key (Right Alt in the example screen shot).

Beep

Instructs KiKbd to beep when the keyboard map is changed.

4.2 Advanced Options

World Menu

You can have a popup menu in any active window by pressing and holding the Switch keys for a sufficiently long time (hold Right Ctrl and Right Shift as in the example screen shot and wait for popup menu).

Emulate Caps Lock

For some keyboards (e.g. Russian, Greek) there are problems with the default CapsLock behavior. Using this option, you instruct KiKbd to emulate CapsLock in order to fix this problem. The Caps state is then indicated by the color of the KiKbd language button instead of the corresponding keyboard Led.

Input

You can select one of the:

Save Classes

If you select Input for Classes, the keyboard to window manager (WM) Class association is automatically saved at the end of each KDE Session and restored at the beginning of the next session. For example, if you have selected the Russian keyboard in the Kedit window when you logout today, you will get it automatically when you login tomorrow.

4.3 Style

You can customize the KiKbd button font and all four colors:

Foreground

Color used for the text label foreground.

Background

Background color used for the text label.

With CapsLock

Background used for the text label when CapsLock emulation is selected and the Caps Lock key is activated.

With Alternate

Background used for the text label while the Alt Switch key is held down.

Customize Font

Use custom or KDE wide fonts.

4.4 Startup

Autostart

if this checked KiKbd will be started automatically at the beginning of each KDE session.

Docked

If this checked KiKbd will be docked into kpanel.

Place

If you don't like docking, you can choose one of the four corners of your display

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