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6. International Keyboard - Advanced Options

Emulate Caps Lock:

For some keyboards (e.g. Russian, Greek) there are problems with the default CapsLock behavior. If you activate this option, you instruct the International Keyboard to emulate CapsLock in order to fix this problem. The ``Caps Lock'' state (on or off) is then indicated by the color of the keyboard-indicator button instead of the corresponding keyboard LED.

World Menu:

If you activate this option, you can get a International Keyboard pop-up menu in any active window by pressing and holding down the Switch key combination until the menu appears.

Save Classes:

If the the selection in the Input section (see below) is ``Class'', you may activate the ``Save Classes'' option so that the association of a given keyboard map with a given class of windows is automatically saved at the end of each KDE Session, and restored at the beginning of the next session. This means that, for example, if the the Russian keyboard map is selected for use in your Kedit windows when you log out today, you will get it automatically in your Kedit windows when you log in tomorrow.

Keyboard codes:

The pull-down menu allows you to choose to use the keyboard codes native to your particular type of keyboard, instead of the X default codes used by the X Window system.

Input:

This determines how the keyboard maps are associated with different windows. You can select one of three choices:

• ``Global'' - the current keyboard map applies to all windows.
• `` Window'' - a separate keyboard map is associated with each top level window, and inherited by each lower-level window created from within it. When the active window changes, the keyboard map will change to the map associated with the active window.
• ``Class'' - a separate keyboard map is associated with each class of window (generally, the class of a window corresponds to to the application that opens it). For example, if this selection is made, and you switch to the Russian keyboard in any window in which the Kedit program is running, you will automatically also get the Russian keyboard in any other Kedit window, until you switch keyboards again.

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