While the programs are installing, I will answer a few of the easier questions.
>> Well, I see now that gnucash on my mac does not like Thai. Unable to
>> enter Thai in gnucash, but haven't looked at the settings.
>OK. Is your installed copy of GNUcash macports-based?
It looks like it is not a macports install.
>> I have Thai, Lao and Greek keyboard's installed on the mac,
>Just to be clear: these are software-defined keyboard layouts, right?
>Not different physical keyboards, with different layouts and keytops,
>each needing to be physically plugged in to the machine? It is probably
>possible to plug three separate different physical keyboards into a Mac
>at once, but I doubt it is very common :)
Mac and windows both have language bars where keyboards can be installed to type various languages. I think it is part of the OS. On the mac there is a little flag at the top of the page where I can click and change the language if I choose not to use the keyboard shortcut.
>OK, good. It may seem basic to you, but that's really useful info for
>this issue. Incidentally, how exactly are you selecting keyboards
>(keymaps) in Linux?
Alt-Shift. I could also click on the keyboard on ubuntu and change it that way if I wanted to.
Gedit is taking forever to install. As soon as I test the three text editors you suggest I will let you know the results.
Brian