OLPC Devanagari Keyboard

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

Starting with the XO-1.5 HS ("High School") edition, the XO laptop has a traditional (non-membrane) keyboard available as an option: English (US International); Spanish (Latin America);

Blank Keyboard Artwork

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

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Devanagari Keyboard Layout

XKB KEY	HID	key	unmodified	shift	alt gr	alt gr shift	ctrl	fn	comment
	0x38	110	esc					HK_01
	0x79	140						HK_00	search
	0x3A	112	XK_ViewMesh						F1, analog 1
	0x77	141						HK_02	analog 2
	0x3B	113	XK_ViewFriends						F2, analog 3
	0x76	142						HK_07	analog 4
	0x3C	114	XK_ViewHome						F3, analog 5
	0x75	143						HK_08	analog 6
	0x3D	115	XK_ViewActivity						F4, analog 7
	0x3E	116							F5, analog 8
	0x74	144						HK_09	analog 9
	0x3F	117							F6, analog 10
	0x73	145						HK_10	analog 11
	0x40	118							F7, analog 12
	0x72	146						HK_11	analog 13
	0x41	119							F8, analog 14
	0x42	120							F9, analog 15
	0x71	147						HK_12	analog 16
	0x43	121							F10, analog 17
	0x70	148						HK_13	analog 18
	0x44	122							F11, analog 19
	0x6F	149						HK_14	analog 20
	0x45	123							F12, analog 21
	0x6E	150						HK_05	bulletin board
	0x5D	129	XK_Menu					HK_06	frame
key <TLDE>	0x01	1	grave	asciitilde	0x100094A	0x1000912
key <AE01>	0x1E	2	1	exclam	0x1000967	0x100090D
key <AE02>	0x1F	3	2	at	0x1000968	0x1000945	C-@
key <AE03>	0x20	4	3	numbersign	0x1000969
key <AE04>	0x21	5	4	dollar	0x100096A
key <AE05>	0x22	6	5	percent	0x100096B
key <AE06>	0x23	7	6	asciicircum	0x100096C		C-^
key <AE07>	0x24	8	7	ampersand	0x100096D
key <AE08>	0x25	9	8	asterisk	0x100096E
key <AE09>	0x26	10	9	parenleft	0x100096F	parenleft
key <AE10>	0x27	11	0	parenright	0x1000970	parenright
key <AE11>	0x2D	12	minus	underscore	minus	0x1000903	C-_
key <AE12>	0x2E	13	equal	plus	0x1000943	0x100090B
key <BKSP>	0x2A	15	backspace					delete
key <TAB>	0x2B	16	tab	back tab
key <AD01>	0x14	17	q	Q	0x100094C	0x1000914	C-Q
key <AD02>	0x1A	18	w	W	0x1000948	0x1000910	C-W
key <AD03>	0x08	19	e	E	0x100093E	0x1000906	C-E
key <AD04>	0x15	20	r	R	0x1000940	0x1000908	C-R
key <AD05>	0x17	21	t	T	0x1000942	0x100090A	C-T
key <AD06>	0x1C	22	y	Y	0x100092C	0x100092D	C-Y
key <AD07>	0x18	23	u	U	0x1000939	0x1000919	C-U
key <AD08>	0x0C	24	i	I	0x1000928	0x1000918	C-I
key <AD09>	0x12	25	o	O	0x1000926	0x1000927	C-O
key <AD10>	0x13	26	p	P	0x100091C	0x100091D	C-P
key <AD11>	0x2F	27	[	{	0x1000921	0x1000922	C-[
key <AD12>	0x30	28	]	}	0x100093C	0x100091E	C-]
key <CAPS>	0xE0	58	control
key <AC01>	0x04	31	a	A	0x100094B	0x1000913	C-A
key <AC02>	0x16	32	s	S	0x1000947	0x100090F	C-S
key <AC03>	0x07	33	d	D	0x100094D	0x1000905	C-D
key <AC04>	0x09	34	f	F	0x100093F	0x1000907	C-F
key <AC05>	0x0A	35	g	G	0x1000941	0x1000909	C-G
key <AC06>	0x0B	36	h	H	0x100092A	0x100092B	C-H
key <AC07>	0x0D	37	j	J	0x1000930	0x1000931	C-J
key <AC08>	0x0E	38	k	K	0x1000915	0x1000916	C-K
key <AC09>	0x0F	39	l	L	0x1000924	0x1000925	C-L
key <AC10>	0x33	40	semicolon	colon	0x100091A	0x100091B
key <AC11>	0x34	41	apostrophe	quotedbl	0x100091F	0x1000920
key <BKSL>	0x31	42	backslash	bar	0x1000949	0x1000911	C-\
key <RTRN>	0x28	43	enter					insert
key <LFSH>	0xE1	44	left shift
key <AB01>	0x1D	46	z	Z	0x1000946	0x100090E	C-Z
key <AB02>	0x1B	47	x	X	0x1000902	0x1000901	C-X
key <AB03>	0x06	48	c	C	0x100092E	0x1000923	C-C
key <AB04>	0x19	49	v	V	0x1000928	0x1000929	C-V
key <AB05>	0x05	50	b	B	0x1000935	0x1000934	C-B
key <AB06>	0x11	51	n	N	0x1000932	0x1000933	C-N
key <AB07>	0x10	52	m	M	0x1000938	0x1000936	C-M
key <AB08>	0x36	53	comma	less	comma	0x1000937
key <AB09>	0x37	54	period	greater	period	0x1000964
key <AB10>	0x38	55	slash	question	0x100092F	0x100095F
key <RTSH>	0xE5	57	right shift
key <UP>	0x52	83	up arrow					page up
key <LSGT>	0x73	56	multiply	division	ISO_Next_Group	ISO_Prev_Group		HK_04
	0xE1	59	fn
	0x5B	127	XK_Grab_L
key <LALT>	0xE2	60	alt
key <SPCE>	0x2C	61	space					XK_ViewSource
key <RALT>	0xE6	62	alt gr
	0x5C	128	XK_Grab_R					HK_03
key <LEFT>	0x50	79	left arrow					home
key <DOWN>	0x51	84	down arrow					page down
key <RGHT>	0x4F	89	right arrow					end

OLPC section of the XKB symbol file

To use the XKB Devanagiri layout along with US layout, you may need to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf. This will make "us" the first and "in" a second layout:

XkbLayout "us,in"
XkbVariant "olpc2,olpc"

partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "olpc" {

// Contact: Walter Bender <walter@laptop.org>

  include "in(deva)"
  key <TLDE> { [	0x100094A,	0x1000912 ] };
  key <AE01> { [	0x1000967,	0x100090D ] };
  key <AE02> { [	0x1000968,	0x1000945 ] };
  key <AE03> { [	0x1000969	 ] };
  key <AE04> { [	0x100096A	 ] };
  key <AE05> { [	0x100096B	 ] };
  key <AE06> { [	0x100096C	 ] };
  key <AE07> { [	0x100096D	 ] };
  key <AE08> { [	0x100096E	 ] };
  key <AE09> { [	0x100096F,	parenleft ] };
  key <AE10> { [	0x1000970,	parenright ] };
  key <AE11> { [	minus,		0x1000903 ] }; //differs from in(deva)?
  key <AE12> { [	0x1000943,	0x100090B ] };

  key <AD01> { [	0x100094C,	0x1000914 ] };
  key <AD02> { [	0x1000948,	0x1000910 ] };
  key <AD03> { [	0x100093E,	0x1000906 ] };
  key <AD04> { [	0x1000940,	0x1000908 ] };
  key <AD05> { [	0x1000942,	0x100090A ] };
  key <AD06> { [	0x100092C,	0x100092D ] };
  key <AD07> { [	0x1000939,	0x1000919 ] };
  key <AD08> { [	0x1000928,	0x1000918 ] };
  key <AD09> { [	0x1000926,	0x1000927 ] };
  key <AD10> { [	0x100091C,	0x100091D ] };
  key <AD11> { [	0x1000921,	0x1000922 ] };
  key <AD12> { [	0x100093C,	0x100091E ] };

  key <BKSL> { [	0x1000949,	0x1000911 ] };

  key <AC01> { [	0x100094B,	0x1000913 ] };
  key <AC02> { [	0x1000947,	0x100090F ] };
  key <AC03> { [	0x100094D,	0x1000905 ] };
  key <AC04> { [	0x100093F,	0x1000907 ] };
  key <AC05> { [	0x1000941,	0x1000909 ] };
  key <AC06> { [	0x100092A,	0x100092B ] };
  key <AC07> { [	0x1000930,	0x1000931 ] };
  key <AC08> { [	0x1000915,	0x1000916 ] };
  key <AC09> { [	0x1000924,	0x1000925 ] };
  key <AC10> { [	0x100091A,	0x100091B ] };
  key <AC11> { [	0x100091F,	0x1000920 ] };

  key <AB01> { [	0x1000946,	0x100090E ] };
  key <AB02> { [	0x1000902,	0x1000901 ] };
  key <AB03> { [	0x100092E,	0x1000923 ] };
  key <AB04> { [	0x1000928,	0x1000929 ] };
  key <AB05> { [	0x1000935,	0x1000934 ] };
  key <AB06> { [	0x1000932,	0x1000933 ] };
  key <AB07> { [	0x1000938,	0x1000936 ] };
  key <AB08> { [	comma,		0x1000937 ] };
  key <AB09> { [	period,		0x1000964 ] };
  key <AB10> { [	0x100092F,	0x100095F ] }; //differs from in(deva)? question?

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