Hebrew FAQ

[Oron Peled]

On Monday, 23 בMarch 2009, Rami Rosen wrote:
> Then, in order to make this "USA" an english-hebrew toggle:
> 
> Right click on the USA.
> Go to "Keyboard prefernces".
> Go to layouts
> Choose "add".
> Select "Israel"
> 
> That's it. Left click on "USA" will change it to Isr and the language to
> Hebrew, clicking again will set it to english back.

While at this dialog, you may want to adjust few more settings:
 * Choose the layout "variant" as "lyx" -- this enables you
   sane input of diacritics ("nikud").
 * Choose what keyboard modifier combination toggles the language
   (so you don't need the mouse). Personally I use both-shift-keys
   but many people choose Left-Alt-Shift to make it work like Windows.
 * Choose an optional LED. Most people choose "scroll lock" which is
   not needed nowdays. It helps see if you are in the default language
   or not.

[In the KDE dialog that Oleg mentioned you can find the same
 options in similar positions]

Cheers,

-- 
Oron Peled                                 Voice: +972-4-8228492
oron at actcom.co.il                  http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron
"There are lies, damned lies, and statistics" -- Benjamin Disraeli
"...and benchmarks" -- Garry Hodgson