Ethiopian Setup: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 01:54, 19 December 2007

See Checking the Layout configuration for instructions on how to set your locale and keyboard.

You can change the keyboard settings on the fly by 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 us and the et layouts by hitting the group switch key, which is mapped to the rightmost key below enter (labeled multiply/divide on US keyboards).

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 Development is being tracked here: http://www.codewiz.org/wiki/EthiopianLocale
+* See [[Checking the Layout configuration]] for instructions on how to set your locale and keyboard.
-* Update your OS image if it's older than <strong>joyride-234</strong>
+* Set <tt>LANG=am_ET.UTF-8</tt> in <tt>/home/olpc/.i18n</tt>
-* Open the Terminal activity
+* Set <tt>XKB_LAYOUT="us(olpc2),et"</tt> in <tt>/etc/sysconfig/keyboard</tt>.
-* Set the environment variables in <code>/home/olpc/.i18n</code> as follows:
-<pre>
-LANG=am_ET.UTF-8
-XKB_LAYOUT="us(olpc2),et"
-</pre>
 * Reboot or restart X