[Gllug] Switching keyboard layouts when changing keyboards

[Dylan]

Hi All,

I use two keyboards: a 'standard' UK one most of the time, and a Russian 
keyboard for my college work. I have them both connected most of the time, 
and currently when I swap from one to the other I need to manually switch 
layout (I've set up so that the layout sticks to the application so I don't 
end up typing Russian characters into chat windows etc!)

Does anyone know of a way to associate the keyboard layout with the physical 
keyboard, so that when I use the English keyboard I get the UK layout and 
when I use the Russian one I get the RU layout without having to manually 
switch between them? I know it's a bit of a picky issue, but as you can 
imagine, since I touchtype in English and pick my way through with two 
fingers in Russian, sometimes I can get half way through a paragraph and 
discover I've forgotten to change layouts!

Any suggestions would be welcome. I'm using KDE3.5 on Suse10.3, and mainly use 
the RU keyboard in OpenOffice 2.3. Each keyboard has a different ID string so 
distinguishing them shouldn't be a problem.

Thanks

Dylan
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