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Dániel Segesdi edited this page Mar 25, 2016 · 17 revisions

Using multiple keyboard layouts on Windows 8 and 8.1

Windows 8 introduced two ways of changing between multiple keyboard layouts (and regional settings), Ctrl + Space which cycles between all possibilities, and Alt + Shift which cycles between languages.

My desired settings are the following:

  • English language, Hungarian keyboard
  • English language, English (US) keyboard

To achieve this, do the following:

  1. Install Windows with the display language set to English, the keyboard layout set to Hungarian.
  2. Go to the Control Panel, Clock, Language and Region, Language.
  3. Click Add a language, choose Hungarian (magyar).
  4. Go to the freshly added language. You are offered to Download and install language pack. We don't want that.
  5. Remove the Hungarian layout and add the US layout (not the US-International as it uses flying accents).

The result should look like this:

Keyboard layout settings

The regional settings can be edited in the same window, in Change date, time or number formats. This is not affected by the language or the keyboard layout.

Screenshot to file (Windows 8 only)

Press Win + Print Screen to save a screenshot to the Pictures\Screenshots folder in your Documents folder.

Too long filenames in git for windows

Both Windows and git can handle longer filenames, but the git default setting is set to max 255 characters (but why?!)

git config --system core.longpaths true

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