graphics\howbutt.gifCustomizing desktop and keyboard language

You can change the language that appears on the windows and menus of your desktop, and customize the international keyboard language maps. You can customize the language in which text on desktop icons and windows appears. Changing the desktop language displays text on the Application Starter menu, the Panel, and in the menus of most Corel LINUX utilities, in the language you have set. You can set up to three languages. The desktop presents information in the language you set as the first desktop language. If the desktop cannot present information in the first language, it tries to present information in the second, and then third language.

An international keyboard language map has characters associated with each keys that are different from the characters assigned to the keys of an English keyboard. For example, when you apply the French keyboard map to your English keyboard, pressing the A key types the letter Q. Language maps that use non-Latin characters, such as Russian or Finnish assign these special characters to the keys. You can define keys that let you switch between keyboard maps. Each language map can have up to four characters associated with each key. You can access the first two characters for a key by pressing only the key, or SHIFT + character key, like on a standard keyboard map. The other two characters are alternative characters, which you access using a defined alternative switch key.

You can set international keyboard options that define which language map is used when a window opens. The Global option applies the defined language map all windows. The Window option applies the language map to each active window. The Class option applies the language map to a class of windows. For example, using the Class option, if you switch to the Russian keyboard map in the Text Editor, each Text Editor window you open also uses the Russian keyboard map. A switch key is a key or combination of keys that you specify to let you switch between international keyboard maps.