[Sugar-devel] seeking help to enable nepali keyboard input for XO-4

Basanta Shrestha basanta.shrestha at olenepal.org
Tue Nov 12 02:51:35 EST 2013


The laptops(XO-4) have arrived but it turns out the keyboard is the other
one the rubber one (Improved Membrane Keyboard ?).
-Basanta


On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Basanta Shrestha <
basanta.shrestha at olenepal.org> wrote:

> D
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:18 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>> > If you need to scale up this change to many laptops, contact
>> > reuben at laptop.org or myself.  I must know the SKU number.
>>
>> In the particular case of changing language/keyboard defaults as we
>> are discussing, instead of changing manufacturing data I would
>> recommend doing it via olpc-os-builder, configuration for [base], see
>>
>> http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/olpc-os-builder/tree/modules/base/README#n46
>
>
> Doing it via olpc-os-builder would be easier especially when we be having
> more than 200 laptops to work on. This way we won't have to deal with each
> and every laptop. So the lines I would have to add would be following :
>
> [base]
> default_language=us
>
> default_kbd_model=us
> default_kbd_layout=us
> default_kbd_variant=np
>
>
> But where do we set the key combination to switch between default and
> nepali. I would like to assign alt+space or alt+shift as combination.
>
> Note: We need to set default layout to english. Nepali input is only
> required for few activities in Epaath and for typing document in Nepali.
>
> -basanta
>
>
>


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Basanta Shrestha
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Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal
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