Keyboard layout: switching from Amharic <> US

[Simon Schampijer]

Short term solution;

  - switch to a virtual console (alt+ctrl+F1 or alt+ctrl+F2) F1 is the 
mesh view key and F2 the friends view key
  - edit /home/olpc/.i18n
  - nano /home/olpc/.i18n
     - LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
     - ctrl+o for save and ctrl+x for quitting

You can not use the sugar-control-panel in the virtual console - this is 
known (#5819).

long-term:
  better control panel with graphical frontend

HTH,
    Simon


James wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Following the first 4 instructions at <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ethiopian_Setup 
>  > I have managed to set my G1G1 XO laptop to accept input in  
> Amharic.  That's the good news.
> 
> The bad news is that I can no longer switch back to a US keyboard.
> 
> Even commands typed into the Terminal now appear in Amharic, and  
> refuse to execute.  I can use the arrow keys in the Terminal to replay  
> the sequence of commands that led to editing /etc/sysconfig/keyboard  
> in nano, but I cannot get nano to save my changes.  If I use ^O to  
> Write Out the file, I find myself in the Journal, but nano is still  
> open in the Terminal.  If I use ^X to Exit nano, it asks if I want to  
> save the modified buffer.  Typing "y" produces an Amharic character  
> which vaguely resembles a Q, and which nano refuses to recognize.
> 
> The page at <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ethiopian_Setup> helpfully  
> suggests that:
> 
>    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).
> 
> In my experience, pressing this key inserts an x character.  No  
> combination of modifier keys along with the group switch key seems to  
> have the desired effect.
> 
> Any help in getting my XO back to its initial US settings would be  
> appreciated.  (Ideally, I'd like to be able to switch between the two  
> on a regular basis).
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> James
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