X Neural Switcher

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X Neural Switcher
Design by	Alfeiks Kaänoken Ivan Tarasov Andrey Kuznetsov Nikolay Yankin
Latest release	0.8.0 / 11 October 2007
Written in	C
OS	Unix-like
Available in	multilingual
Development status	active development
Genre	intellectual locale switchers
License	GNU General Public License
Website	http://www.xneur.ru/

X Neural Switcher (or xneur for short) is a free software (GNU GPL) computer program for automatic (intellectual) keyboard layout changing in X Window System, all flavours of Linux and BSD. Currently, it works to change mainly between russian, english, but also supports ukrainian, belorussian, french, romanian, kazakh and german.

The program loads itself in background and monitors the characters that comes from user input. If the chars sequence is not common for the current user input language, then the program changes the layout and rewrites the word or the unfinished word in the more appropriate language. For example, the incorrect «Dbrbgtlbz» will became into Russian for «Wikipedia» («Википедия») and, the other way round, the unclear «фззду» will become the understandable «apple».

User can "teach" program by adding the unknown words or chars sequences into the program "dictionary". User also can manually command the program to change languages by pressing the "Break" button (by default) on the keyboard. Moreover, automatic mode may be switched off, leaving only manual in command.

X Neural Switcher program is divided into 2 parts:

xneur server works as a daemon in a basic X Window System
graphical frontend gxneur (for GNOME, uses GTK+) and kxneur (for KDE, currently in development^[1])

Program was added in the repositories of ALT Linux, Russian SuSE club^[2], Debian, some FreeBSD ports and some Russian Ubuntu repositories. ^[3]

Authors - Alfeiks Kaänoken, Ivan Tarasov, Andrey Kuznetsov, Nikolay Yankin.

Current version is 0.8.0 released on 11 October 2007.