[Sugar-devel] Using a new keyboard layout for XO4

[Basanta Shrestha]

Yeah it works. Now I have Nepali romanized keyboard layout in XO-4. Thanks
a lot Daniel, you rock !
Regards,
Basanta


On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:

> Hi Basanta,
>
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:27 AM, Basanta Shrestha
> <basanta.shrestha at olenepal.org> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > We are planing on using a different keyboard layout for XO4. The new
> layout we think is phonetically based and easier for children. I simply
> switched the /usr/share/X11/symbols/np file with a new one but did not
> work. I guess there are some other works that needs to be done before we
> can use this file. Can you suggest what needs to be done?
>
> Yeah, it's not quite that simple. You need to leave the interaction
> with the OLPC mode/variant in place. Add the following lines to the
> end of the file:
>
> partial alphanumeric_keys
> xkb_symbols "olpc" {
>   include "np"
>   include "group(olpc)"
> };
>
> Now it should work.
>
> Daniel
>



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