Ethiopian Setup

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

• 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:

XkbLayout "us,et"
XkbVariant "olpc2,basic"

Alternatively, you can do that on the fly by opening the developer console (Alt-=) and type:

setxkbmap -model olpc 'us(olpc2),et'

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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 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).