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"Shachar Shemesh" wine-devel@shemesh.biz wrote:
XFree 4.3 would do about this. setxkbmap il would only give Israeli keyboard layout. In order to get the current behaviour, one would have to do "setxkbmap us,il". Is that what you mean?
If that is the case, then merely removing the English part of the keyboard from the Israeli Wine mapping should identify it as a US keyboard followed by an Israeli keyboard. Is that what you mean?
That's right.