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Mixing US English and Swedish keyboard layout

written by Michael on Sunday, June 1st, 2008 at 15:06

Now when I am back in Sweden I keep switching back and forth between Swedish and English keyboard layout, which is very inefficient and time consuming, and all of this because the Swedish alphabet has 3 extra characters (åäö). It all started out when I was looking for a way to switch keyboard layout on my EEE 900 laptop.

The standard (simple) GUI didn´t seem to have a way to switch between different western keyboard layouts, but then I came across this post on the EEE User Forum and I could launch the KDE Control panel application. At first I just added the Swedish keyboard layout and got a icon in the systray area to switch between the layouts, but then I continued reading and learned about the English International keyboard layout and it was like haven. Now I can easily access the Swedish characters åäö by pressing right alt + W, Q and P respectively.

Now I am off to update the keyboard layout on all of my computers.

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