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LANG=am_ET.UTF-8 |
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You can do that on the fly by starting the terminal activity and typing: |
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* To use the XKB Ethiopian layout along with US layout, you need to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf. This will make "us" the first and "et" a second layout: |
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XkbLayout "us,et" |
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XkbVariant "olpc2,basic" |
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Alternatively, you can do that on the fly by opening the developer console (<code>Alt-=</code>) and type: |
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setxkbmap -model olpc 'us(olpc2),et' |
setxkbmap -model olpc 'us(olpc2),et' |
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Revision as of 20:03, 31 October 2007
Development is being tracked here: http://www.codewiz.org/wiki/EthiopianLocale
- Update your OS image if it's older than joyride-76
- Boot, switch to the console (
alt-F1) and login as root.
- Set the LANG environment variable in
/etc/sysconfig/i18n
LANG=am_ET.UTF-8
You can do that on the fly by starting the terminal activity and typing:
setxkbmap -model olpc 'us(olpc2),et'
- You can switch between IM in the Write activity through the RMB context menu, although the Amharic IM only appears to work the the "us" XKB keyboard layout.
- You can toggle between the
usand theetlayouts by hitting thegroup switchkey, which is mapped to the rightmost key belowenter(labeledmultiply/divideon US keyboards).