hebrew (or arabic) transparency to call up when i forget key location?

[Michael Shiloh]

never occurred to me that it might be built-in:

the menu that lets me select layouts also includes a layout map!

perhaps not quite as convenient as a hot key, but perhaps that's better, 
as it will encourage me to memorize the keyboard.

thanks for the tip!

On 12/30/2012 11:53 PM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:
> Have you tried to see what happens when your layout is set to
> Hebrew/Arabic, if the feature is to help you know where the keys are
> then it should show in those languages when the keyboard is set to
> that layout.
>
> Though it may also be meant as a touch-screen feature allowing for
> easy super+[key] combinations where super is the only key on the
> touchscreen device, in which case it will only show English.
>
> Regards,
> Eliyahu - אליהו
>
> 2012/12/30 Michael Shiloh <michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com>:
>> i just found a nice feature in Unity (new to me at least): press and hold
>> the "special" key for a semi-transparent overview of keyboard shortcuts,
>> great for jogging the memory.
>>
>> such a transparency of the hebrew (and arabic) keyboard would help me learn
>> to type in hebrew, as i have only english letters on my keycaps.
>>
>> does such a thing exist?
>>
>> if not, i'd like to make my own: hopefully i can find one already in source
>> form and give it the correct properties, then figure out how to bind a key
>> to display it.
>>
>>
>>
>> any thoughts appreciated.
>>
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