Posts Tagged ‘keyboards’

Windows 7: Change default language for logon screen howto

Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013

WINDOWS 7 LOGO HOW TO CHANGE DEFAULT INPUT LANGUAGE TO ENGLISH

I just installed Windows 7 on my notebook. I had a licensed version of Windows Vista, which kept on notebook unused for about 4 years. Vista was too slow and even though I didn't launch it for about 2 years after launching I figured out it is broken, it boots about 10 minutes and all the time tries read from notebook Hard Disk. After re-installing with Windows 7, and setting default environment Language setting to Bulgarian I figured, my default input language set it Bulgarian. As I use more latin than Cyrillic this made me crazy as in each Windows I had to press Alt + Shift to change language to EN.

Bulgarian language was set as default even on Windows logon (Welcome Screen).

 Here is how I managed to change Windows irritating behavior so my default input language is English:

Start -> Control Panel -> Region and Language -> Keyboards and Languages

Region and language keyboards and languages windows 7 screenshot

Windows 7 text services and input languages dialog screen

From there I changed language to English (UK) then retart and Hooray, default input language is English 🙂

Fixing enter not working in Skype 6 – Skype cannot send message bug on Windows XP

Sunday, March 10th, 2013

Skype how to fix enter not sending messages in Skype6 downgrade to Skype5 windows XP
Yesterday, I had to fix another Windows XP computer infested with Spyware and Viruses. Thanksfully I cleaned it up as usual using standard combination of Malware Bytes + Little Registry Cleaner and Avira. The PC haven't been updated recently and running still Windows XP SP2, thus to make Avira running I had to install SP3 as Avira nowdays depends on Win SP3. After clean up it worked much better, though it is not 100% sure if some kind of malicious software is still not on PC.
After all seemed fine on this Russian Windows XP, there was one thing still problematic – Skype. For some weird reason whenever user from Skype contact list is messaged, it was impossible to send the message with Enter key. I tried checking if all seems fine in Keyboard Settings and Regional Settings in Windows Control Center, cause XP version was with Russian Language Pack and I suspected the Language Pack might mess up something in how Keyboard keys are mapped but all seemed fine there. One important note to make here is PC is running on old hardware and had an old standard PS/2 Keyboard detected as PS/2 – 101 – 102 keys standard keyboard. I tried re-installing the keyboard driver, trying to auto-detect however driver detected for this keyboard seemed to be latest issued for PS/2 Keyboards from Microsoft so after update Skype can't send message bug was still present and respectively the only way to communicate with people from contact list was to Call the person and speak. I researched online on the problem and found a multitude of users complaining to face the same Skype messaging – Enter key not working, unfortunately noone online seemed to have found a solution. I've seen some suggestions to use Skype settings to re-map Enter key but on this Skype 6.2.0.106 the option to remap how Enter key reacts wasn't present. Thus I decided to try to downgrade Skype 6 to Skype 5 here is a mirror of Skype 5 -and try if this helps. After Uninstalling Skype 6 and installing Skype 5 – enter key started working again so mission accomplished 🙂 If you happen to have the annoying Enter key not working in skype bug just downgrade to any below version to 6 and all will be fine. Drop me a comment if you experience the same bug with Win and Skype version.
Finally, be sure not to upgrade further Skype to avoid problems. Last but not least, there is even some advantages in older skype releases, the interface is simpler – making work with skype easier.

Configuring easy access and Internet keyboards on Linux (lineak)

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

I’ve bough a media keyboard yesterday, since I ran Debian I needed
a way to configure my keyboard. After some research online I found lineak .
Lineak does have support already for many Linux keyboards key sets.
However my keboard Delux K5201 was not supported. Thus I’ll now
follow the documentation to make it fully work with my Debian Linux.
Anyways surely the project will be helpful for many whose keyboards
are supported on Linux through lineak.
Seems that most of the easy access keys on my Delux K5201 kbd are workingcorretcly. 70% out of all the easy access keys are working out of the box.The keys that don’t work and are most vital are the “Shutdown Button” andthe “Mail button”.END—–