This section describes how to configure your keyboard autorepeat rate, layouts and input methods for typing in different languages, and the keyboard accessibility features of the Oracle Solaris Desktop.
You can configure Keyboard Layout preferences such as Keyboard Layout and Keyboard Model. The two main areas are:
Input Methods (IM) – Choose this method if you regularly type in languages that have a greater number of characters or complex characters, for example, some Asian languages like Chinese, Japanese, or Korean.
GNOME Keyboard Layout Preferences – Choose this method if you regularly type in languages that have smaller number of characters. For example, languages conformed by Latin characters as English, Spanish, French, and German.
Although the IM provide a more complex mechanism for composing characters it can be used also for Latin languages. Similarly GNOME Keyboard Layout Preferences can be also used for non-Latin languages.