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Console keyboard layout files are in <tt>/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386</tt>. From the Terminal activity (or the console), you can use the 'loadkeys' program to assign a keymap to the the console. For example: |
Console keyboard layout files are in <tt>/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386</tt>. From the [[Terminal]] activity (or the console), you can use the 'loadkeys' program to assign a keymap to the the console. For example: |
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===X Window System=== |
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X Window System keyboard symbol files are in <tt>/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols</tt>. Again, from the Terminal activity (or the console), you can use the <tt>setxkbmap</tt> to assign a symbol table to the X Window System. For example: |
X Window System keyboard symbol files are in <tt>/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols</tt>. Again, from the [[Terminal]] activity (or the console), you can use the <tt>setxkbmap</tt> to assign a symbol table to the X Window System. For example: |
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setxkbmap es |
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Revision as of 09:14, 23 January 2008
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; Armenian; Khmer; Pulaar
The procedure for modifying the keyboard layout on your XO is described here.
There are two mechanisms on the laptop that are used to configure the keyboards: one for the console and one for the X Window System (and Sugar).
Console
Console keyboard layout files are in /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386. From the Terminal activity (or the console), you can use the 'loadkeys' program to assign a keymap to the the console. For example:
loadkeys es
for Spanish
loadkeys us
for English
X Window System
X Window System keyboard symbol files are in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols. Again, from the Terminal activity (or the console), you can use the setxkbmap to assign a symbol table to the X Window System. For example:
setxkbmap es
for Spanish
setxkbmap us
for US
setxkbmap -layout us,in -variant olpc2,olpc
for US and Devanagari
Making the changes permanent
The above changes are temporary. To make permanent changes, you should use the 'sugar-control-panel' program as described here. For example:
sugar-control-panel -s language Spanish/Argentina
This changes the values in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard.
XKB_MODEL="olpc" XKB_LAYOUT="es" XKB_VARIANT="olpc" KEYTABLE="es"