[Sugar-devel] seeking help to enable nepali keyboard input for XO-4

Walter Bender walter.bender at gmail.com
Tue Nov 12 07:37:21 EST 2013


Makes things much easier. Now you just have to change the
manufacruring data as was suggested earlier, but you don't need to
modify the xkb symbol table.

Good luck.

-walter

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 4:24 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> Okay, that is consistent with the data we have for the SKU311
> mentioned by Samuel on 8th November.
>
> The divide and multiply key is the language switch key.
>
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 01:36:35PM +0545, Basanta Shrestha wrote:
>> The laptops(XO-4) have arrived but it turns out the keyboard is the other one
>> the rubber one (Improved Membrane Keyboard ?).
>> -Basanta
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Basanta Shrestha <
>> basanta.shrestha at olenepal.org> wrote:
>>
>>     D
>>
>>
>>     On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>>         On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:18 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org>
>>         wrote:
>>         > If you need to scale up this change to many laptops, contact
>>         > reuben at laptop.org or myself.  I must know the SKU number.
>>
>>         In the particular case of changing language/keyboard defaults as we
>>         are discussing, instead of changing manufacturing data I would
>>         recommend doing it via olpc-os-builder, configuration for [base], see
>>         http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/olpc-os-builder/tree/modules/base/
>>         README#n46
>>
>>
>>     Doing it via olpc-os-builder would be easier especially when we be having
>>     more than 200 laptops to work on. This way we won't have to deal with each
>>     and every laptop. So the lines I would have to add would be following :
>>
>>     [base]
>>     default_language=us
>>
>>     default_kbd_model=us
>>     default_kbd_layout=us
>>     default_kbd_variant=np
>>
>>
>>     But where do we set the key combination to switch between default and
>>     nepali. I would like to assign alt+space or alt+shift as combination.
>>
>>     Note: We need to set default layout to english. Nepali input is only
>>     required for few activities in Epaath and for typing document in Nepali.
>>
>>     -basanta
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Basanta Shrestha
>> Network Engineer
>> Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal
>> Tel: +977.1.5544441, 5520075 Ext. 303
>> Cell: +977.9818 605110
>> http://www.olenepal.org
>
> --
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.linux.org.au/



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