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For each language or national keyboard, kikbd supports a
keyboard map
which can have up to four symbols per physical keyboard key. For
example in the Russian keyboard you have four symbols for key 'Q':
lowercase i, uppercase I, lowercase q, and uppercase Q.
The first two symbols are
the national character-set keyboard-map symbols and the last two
symbols are the alternate symbols.
For typing alternate symbols you
have to set up a choice of a
special Alternate Switch key in the
kikbd configuration; for details, see the
Personal Configuration section.
Normally the first symbol is obtained by typing without any modifier
keys pressed, the second symbol when you type with the Shift
held down,
the third symbol when you type with the Alternate Switch
held key down,
and the fourth symbol when you type with the Alternate Switch
+ Shift keys both held down.
At the time this was written, there were more than twenty
national keyboard definition files already in the kikbd distribution.
If a keyboard for your language is missing see section Creating a new National Keyboard.
The International Keyboard
``Personal configuration'', using the kcmikbd
Control Center module,
includes all your runtime settings for kikbd.
You should use the KDE Control Center module
program kcmikbd
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.
To run kcmikbd, go to the Settings menu or the The KDE Control Center
and choose ``Input Devices'' and then
``International Keyboard''.
To run kikbd, go to the System menu
and choose
``International Keyboard Layout''.
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