On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 10:33:29 -0500
Patrick Serru <patrick@...> wrote:

> Le lundi 07 janvier 2013, Patrick Serru a �crit :
> > ... 
> >       An other (XOrg?) problem: after a new window has been open, I have
> > to click 2 times on the kxkb (supposed) icon in the taskbar to change the
> > flag to american, then back to spanish, so that the keyboard is properly 
> > interpreted as Spanish. Note that the toggeling rule (R�gle de
> > basculement) was "Global". I try now to configure it to have only the
> > spanish option, and will tell you later if it changed anything.
> > 
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>       Hi all,
> 
>       It does not work! When there is only the spanish possibility as 
> keyboard layout, I have to click on the icone to get spanish keyboard.
> 
>       When kxkb is not used, the keyboard is allways am�rican. American 
> keyboard is nice but I need metacharacters! Is there a way to get 
> metacaracters with us keyboard?

You should be able to set a layout-switch hotkey through xkb directly.
The options used to be under Keyboard Layout -> Xkb Options in
the Control Center, or you can call setxkbmap from the command line.  
You can also set a compose key this way, which will let you type 
characters with accents and other diacritics using a US keyboard layout.  

For instance, my system has Scroll Lock set as a compose key,
so if I want to type n-tilde (�), the corresponding key sequence is
Scroll Lock, ~, n.  The corresponding setxkbmap command would
be: setxkbmap -option compose:sclk