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OLPC keyboard layouts

English (US international); Spanish (Argentine); Portuguese (Brazilian); Amharic (Ethiopic); Arabic; West African; French; Thai; Urdu; Cyrillic; Turkish; Nepali; Mongolian; Kazakh; Devanagari; Uzbek; Pashto; Dari

Console keyboard layout files are in /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386. Set the console layout thus, in bash.

loadkeys dvorak
loadkeys us

You can access the console by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1 (F1 is Mesh key f1 small.png) then log in as root with no password. To return to Sugar, press Ctrl+Alt+F3 (F3 is Home key f3 small.png).

X keyboard layout files are in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols. Set the X layout thus, from the Terminal.

setxkbmap dvorak
setxkbmap us

Press Alt+= or Alt+0 to toggle back and forth.


The layout switching key (misnamed the language key) is times-divide, just above right arrow. On Arabic and some other XOs it has a different graphic symbol, indicating two alphabets to switch between.

In the Arabic layout, it is defined as

// Language key
key <I219> { [ ISO_Next_Group, ISO_Prev_Group ] }

In the International US English layout, it is defined as

key <I219> {[ multiply, division,ISO_Next_Group,ISO_Prev_Group ]}

Some current layouts, including Dvorak, fail to define a language key.

Please see Customizing_NAND_images#Keyboard for more details about configuring your keyboard and console keybindings.