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==Enabling Sinhala keyboard==
== Enable Sinhala rendering ==
* Copy lklug.ttf font to /usr/share/fonts
* execute
<pre>fc-cache -fv</pre>

== Enabling Sinhala keyboard==
* Edit /etc/sysconfig/keyboard and add the following
* Edit /etc/sysconfig/keyboard and add the following
<pre>
<pre>

Revision as of 08:29, 16 October 2008

Enable Sinhala rendering

  • Copy lklug.ttf font to /usr/share/fonts
  • execute
fc-cache -fv

Enabling Sinhala keyboard

  • Edit /etc/sysconfig/keyboard and add the following
KEYTABLE="us"
XKB_MODEL="olpc"
XKB_LAYOUT="en,lk"
XKB_VARIANT="olpc"
XKB_OPTIONS="grp:alt_shift_toggle"
  • Restart the Sugar by using Ctrl+Alt+erase


Sinhala Linux supports the Sinhala script and Sinhala language of Sri Lanka by creating Sinhala-enabled versions of applications for merging into Debian and other distributions. Sinhala fonts and keyboards are in Debian and other Linux distributions.