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

[Walter Bender]

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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