seoul
May 13th, 2010, 09:27 AM
I type in both Korean and English. Naturally, I need to switch the input engine very often. I used to use different key combinations for different input engine:
LShift+Space = Roman (English)
RShift+Space = Hangul (Korean)
Not a single 'flipper' to switch back and forth, but two different keys for each.
With this configuration, you don't need to care about the 'current' input state of the process when you start typing. Wherever you are, you just press either LShift+Space or RShift+Space (according to what you want) and start typing. Very, very liberating. I loved it.
On Windows, I did this with a third party application. I failed to do the same on IBus, the default input method of Ubuntu. Apparently, a single flipper is the only thing IBus supports.
I also have tried SCIM. The situation is slightly better - it does support different keystrokes for different input engines. But then, SCIM does not have the distiction of "LShift" and "RShift".
Does anybody know how I can have different key combinations for different input engines?
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 lucid lynx.
LShift+Space = Roman (English)
RShift+Space = Hangul (Korean)
Not a single 'flipper' to switch back and forth, but two different keys for each.
With this configuration, you don't need to care about the 'current' input state of the process when you start typing. Wherever you are, you just press either LShift+Space or RShift+Space (according to what you want) and start typing. Very, very liberating. I loved it.
On Windows, I did this with a third party application. I failed to do the same on IBus, the default input method of Ubuntu. Apparently, a single flipper is the only thing IBus supports.
I also have tried SCIM. The situation is slightly better - it does support different keystrokes for different input engines. But then, SCIM does not have the distiction of "LShift" and "RShift".
Does anybody know how I can have different key combinations for different input engines?
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 lucid lynx.