X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Eric Lilja Subject: Re: Keyboard layout changed Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:51:22 +0200 Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <20071018081452.GD20400@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <20071018081452.GD20400@calimero.vinschen.de> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 17 22:18, Eric Lilja wrote: >> Hi, I haven't used cygwin much the past month or so and I definetly haven't >> tampered with its setting, but when I launched it today I was surprised to >> find that my keyboard layout had changed from swedish to american. It had >> only changed in bash not in any other program. I'm running an american >> version of XP but I'm using a Swedish keyboard. The language bar or >> whatever it's called (that allows toggling layouts, you might not have seen >> this if you run american xp with american keyboard) that sits near the >> clock was disabled soon after first installing XP on this computer. I'm > > This has nothing to do with Cygwin. Did you never try to get the > language bar back after installing XP? It's a setting in Start > Menu->Control Panel->Regional and Language Options->Tab "Languages" > ->Button "Details..."->Tab "Settings"->Button "Language Bar..." Here's a > Checkbox "Show the Language bar on the desktop". > No, I didn't because I thought I had disabled the ability to change the language. Is changing it on a per-program basis because I only had the different layout under cygwin. Restarting cygwin didn't help. Was it some weird key sequence I happened to enter while working in bash? Anyway, when I rebooted today the problem was gone. Thanks for your reply. > > Corinna > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/