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

[Jerry Vonau]

On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 16:12 +0545, Basanta Shrestha 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? 
> 
> 
> 
> The layout I want to use is http://nepalinux.org/input/ne
> 

Think you answered[1] your own question earlier edit 
/etc/sysconfig/keyboard. To override the firstboot configuration of the
XO based on .mfg-data you need a custom image created with the variables
default_kbd_* set correctly to have the keyboard configured based on
your setting. While olpc-configure runs on boot some firstboot
operations are run then sets some flags too not run again. For testing
make your changes on the XO then delete /.olpc-configured
and /home/olpc/.olpc-configured then reboot, this will simulate what
will happen on first-boot. Other file of interest is /home/olpc/.i18n to
set the locale's language and language order. Have a look at what 
/usr/sbin/olpc-configure does for the XO and ~/.18n itself.

Jerry


1.http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2013-November/045878.html
2.http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2013-November/045857.html