[OM 2008.9] Keyboard discussion

[William Kenworthy]

On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 13:27 +0200, flamma at correo.ugr.es wrote:
> > The more I use my FR the less I like the current input methods. Raster's
> > keyboard is a great improvement but still hardly useful if you're typing
> > in a language other then english (e.g. swiss german).
> 
> Did you know you can copy the /usr/share/dict/ files from your PC to your
> FR, and then you can select this dictionary's on raster's keyboard?
> 
> So, if you have GNU/Linux on your desktop system and it is translated, you
> can have keyboard working with your language.
> 
> If not, I think it wouldn't be very difficult to find those dictionaries.

I cant remember ever seeing an answer though it used to be asked a lot -
but how can you turn off the predictive altogether?  It totally
frustrating to use for what I do - its so slow and takes too many key
strokes to do even anything simple ...

BillK