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* 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 switch between IM in the Write activity through the RMB context menu (no you can't, as the RMB context menu is disabled these days - uwog), although the Amharic IM only appears to work the the "us" XKB keyboard layout. |
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* You can toggle between the <code>us</code> and the <code>et</code> layouts by hitting the <code>group switch</code> key, which is mapped to the rightmost key below <code>enter</code> (labeled <code>multiply/divide</code> on US keyboards). |
* You can toggle between the <code>us</code> and the <code>et</code> layouts by hitting the <code>group switch</code> key, which is mapped to the rightmost key below <code>enter</code> (labeled <code>multiply/divide</code> on US keyboards). |
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Revision as of 21:05, 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 (no you can't, as the RMB context menu is disabled these days - uwog), 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).