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From: Peter <heisspf@skyinet.net>
To: largret@gmail.com, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Keyboard Indicator
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 17:43:20 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051216174320.408bb130@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1134707223.5806.1.camel@shogun.daga.dyndns.org>

On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:27:03 -0800
Chris Largret <largret@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 10:38 +0800, Peter wrote:
> 
> > One problem is I sometimes forget to change back to let say US KB. I
> > thought of having an xmessage display when I have switched the kb layout.
> > 
> > In the command line for the applet where I have e.g. "setxkbmap de" I
tried to
> > add " xmessage Kb set DE" which does not work.
> > 
> > Is there a way to put 2 commands or more in a command line applet?
> 
> A semi-colon character should work to achieve this:
> 
> $ echo "first command"; echo "second command"
> first command
> second command
> $ 
> 
> I haven't tried this in the applet, but it should work.
> 

Thanks!

I naturally tried this, ; , and space. It will not set then the kb at all and
I get an error message on the terminal: Error loading new keyboard
description.

-- 
Peter
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      reply	other threads:[~2005-12-16  9:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-14  2:38 Keyboard Indicator Peter
2005-12-16  4:27 ` Chris Largret
2005-12-16  9:43   ` Peter [this message]

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