OLPC Keyboard layouts

From OLPC

Scan-code table

scan code table

XKB Symbol files

Editing these is described in Keyboard definitions. Release 12.1.0 used only upstream files.

Please refer to the xkb_symbols "olpc" sections of the various symbol files [1] for the OLPC-specific keyboard mappings).

OLPC keyboard layouts

Instructions for setting up keyboard switching in Terminal are on the Customizing NAND images page. On bilingual XOs, the multiplication/division key is replaced with a keyboard switching key.

Changing the language of the keyboard is independent of changing the language currently displayed. The language currently displayed can be changed by using the Language section of the Sugar Control Panel.

Membrane keyboard layouts

English (US international); Spanish (Latin America); Portuguese (Brazilian); Amharic (Ethiopic); Arabic; Nigerian (Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba); French; Thai; Urdu; Cyrillic (Russian); Turkish; Nepali; Mongolian; Kazakh; Devanagari; Uzbek; Pashto; Dari; Armenian; Khmer; Pulaar; Italian; Kreyòl; German; Chinese (Simplified); OLPC AZERTY

Non-membrane keyboard layouts

The XO-1.5 HS ("High School") edition (identified as model CL1C in manufacturing data) has a non-membrane "clicky" keyboard. English (US International); Spanish (Latin America);

Blank Keyboard Artwork

Artwork defining the inner dimensions of the membrane keyboard is available here: keyboard-blank.svg

The SVG files for the OLPC keyboard layouts are here.