Ethiopian Setup: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 22:30, 5 November 2007

{{{ LANG=am_ET.UTF-8 XKB_LAYOUT="us(olpc2),et" }}}

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
-* Update your OS image if it's older than <strong>joyride-76</strong>
+* Update your OS image if it's older than <strong>joyride-234</strong>
+* Open the Terminal activity
-* Boot, switch to the console (<code>alt-F1</code>) and login as root.
-* Set the LANG environment variable in <code>/etc/sysconfig/i18n</code>
+* Set the environment variables in <code>/home/olpc/.i18n</code> as follows:
+{{{
- LANG=am_ET.UTF-8
+LANG=am_ET.UTF-8
+XKB_LAYOUT="us(olpc2),et"
+}}}
+* Reboot or restart X
-You can do that on the fly by starting the terminal activity and typing:
+You can change the keyboard settings on the fly by typing:
  setxkbmap -model olpc 'us(olpc2),et'