OLPC Pashto 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
Pashto keyboard layout
Symbol Table
OLPC section of the XKB symbol file
To use the XKB Pashto layout along with US layout, you may need to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf. This will make "us" the first and "af" a second layout:
XkbLayout "us,af" XkbVariant "olpc2,olpc-ps"
// from xkb/symbols/af
partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "olpc-ps" {
name[Group1]= "Afghanistan - Pashto";
key <TLDE> { [ 0x100200D, 0x1000654, grave ] }; // zero width joiner, Arabic hamza above
key <AE01> { [ 0x10006F1, exclam, asciitilde ] }; // Arabic one
key <AE02> { [ 0x10006F2, 0x100066C, at ] }; // Arabic two, Arabic thousands separator
key <AE03> { [ 0x10006F3, 0x100066B, numbersign ] }; // Arabic three, Arabic decimal separator
key <AE04> { [ 0x10006F4, 0x100060B, dollar ] }; // Arabic four, Afghani sign
key <AE05> { [ 0x10006F5, 0x100066A, percent ] }; // Arabic five, Arabic percent sign
key <AE06> { [ 0x10006F6, multiply, asciicircum ] }; // Arabic six
key <AE07> { [ 0x10006F7, guillemotright, ampersand ] }; // Arabic seven
key <AE08> { [ 0x10006F8, guillemotleft, 0x100066D ] }; // Arabic eight, Arabic five-pointed star
key <AE09> { [ 0x10006F9, parenright ] }; // Arabic nine
key <AE10> { [ 0x10006F0, parenleft, degree ] }; // Arabic zero
key <AE11> { [ minus, 0x1000640, underscore ] }; // Arabic_tatweel
key <AE12> { [ plus, equal, division ] };
key <AD01> { [ 0x1000636, 0x1000652, EuroSign ] }; // Arabic dad, Arabic sukun
key <AD02> { [ 0x1000635, 0x100064C, 0x1000671 ] }; // Arabic sad, Arabic dammatan, Arabic alef walsa
key <AD03> { [ 0x100062B, 0x100064D, 0x1000649 ] }; // Arabic theh, Arabic kasratan, Arabic alef maksura initial form
key <AD04> { [ 0x1000642, 0x100064B, 0x100200E ] }; // Arabic qaf, Arabic fathatan, left-to-right mark
key <AD05> { [ 0x1000641, 0x100064F, 0x100200F ] }; // Arabic feh, Arabic damma, right-to-left mark
key <AD06> { [ 0x100063A, 0x1000650, 0x100e653 ] }; // Arabic ghain, Arabic kasra, Arabic alef with madda above
key <AD07> { [ 0x1000639, 0x100064E, 0x100e659 ] }; // Arabic ain, Arabic fatha, Arabic zwarakay
key <AD08> { [ 0x1000647, 0x1000651, 0x1000670 ] }; // Arabic heh, Arabic shadda, Arabic superscript alef
key <AD09> { [ 0x100062E, 0x1000681, apostrophe ] }; // Arabic khah, Arabic hah with hamza above,
key <AD10> { [ 0x100062D, 0x1000685, quotedbl ] }; // Arabic hah, Arabic hah with three dots above
key <AD11> { [ 0x100062C, bracketright, braceleft ] }; // Arabic jeem
key <AD12> { [ 0x1000686, bracketleft, braceright ] }; // Arabic tcheh
key <AC01> { [ 0x1000634, 0x100069A ] }; // Arabic sheen, Arabic seen with dot below and dot above
key <AC02> { [ 0x1000633, 0x10006CD ] }; // Arabic seen, Arabic yeh with tail
key <AC03> { [ 0x10006CC, 0x100064A, 0x10006D2 ] }; // Farsi yeh, Arabic yeh, Arabic yeh barree
key <AC04> { [ 0x1000628, 0x100067E, 0x10006BA ] }; // Arabic beh, Arabic peh, Arabic noon ghunna
key <AC05> { [ 0x1000644, 0x1000623, 0x10006B7 ] }; // Arabic lam, Arabic hamza on alef, Arabic alef with hamza above
key <AC06> { [ 0x1000627, 0x1000622, 0x1000625 ] }; // Arabic alef, Arabic madda on alef, Arabic alef with hamza below
key <AC07> { [ 0x100062A, 0x100067C, 0x1000679 ] }; // Arabic teh, Arabic teh with ring, Arabic tteh
key <AC08> { [ 0x1000646, 0x10006BC, greater ] }; // Arabic noon, Arabic noon with ring
key <AC09> { [ 0x1000645, 0x1000629, less ] }; // Arabic meem, Arabic teh marbuta
key <AC10> { [ 0x10006A9, colon, 0x1000643 ] }; // Arabic keheh, Arabic kaf
key <AC11> { [ 0x10006AB, 0x100061B, 0x10006AF ] }; // Arabic kaf with ring, Arabic semicolon, Arabic gaf
key <BKSL> { [ backslash, asterisk, bar ] };
key <SPCE> { [ space, 0x100200C, 0x10000A0 ] }; // zero width non-joiner, no break space
key <AB01> { [ 0x1000638, 0x1000626, question] }; // Arabic zah, Arabic yeh with hamza above
key <AB02> { [ 0x10006D0, 0x1000637, semicolon ] }; // Arabic tah, Arabic E
key <AB03> { [ 0x1000632, 0x1000698 ] }; // Arabic zain, Arabic jeh
key <AB04> { [ 0x1000631, 0x1000621 ] }; // Arabic_ra (reh?), Arabic hamza
key <AB05> { [ 0x1000630, 0x100200C ] }; // Arabic_thal, zero width non-joiner
key <AB06> { [ 0x100062F, 0x1000689, 0x1000688 ] }; // Arabic_dal, Arabic dal with ring, Arabic ddal
key <AB07> { [ 0x1000693, 0x1000624, 0x1000691 ] }; // Arabic reh with ring, Arabic waw with hamza above, Arabic rreh
key <AB08> { [ 0x1000648, period, comma ] }; // Arabic_waw, Arabic comma
key <AB09> { [ 0x1000696, 0x100002E, 0x10006C7 ] }; // Arabic reh with dot below and dot above, full stop, Arabic letter U
key <AB10> { [ slash, 0x100061F, 0x10006C9 ] }; // Arabic question mark, Arabic kirghiz yu
include "group(olpc)"
};