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

[Paul Fox]

basanta wrote:
 > Amazingly changing the manufacturing data didn't do the job but changing
 > /etc/sysconfig/keyboard did. Wow! Now I have Nepali input system. Thank you
 > all.

i believe /etc/sysconfig/keyboard is created on first boot, using
information gleaned from manufacturing data.  see
/usr/sbin/olpc-configure for details.  this would explain why changing
the manufacturing tags didn't help -- they've already been consulted,
on your test laptop.

paul

 > 
 > Now I need to find a place to change default locale to ne_NP, so that the
 > default interface is in Nepali. There is an option to do this in
 > manufacturing data but it would be better if it can be done using file.
 > -basanta
 > 
 > 
 > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:
 > 
 > > 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/
 > >
 > >
 > >
 > > --
 > > Walter Bender
 > > Sugar Labs
 > > http://www.sugarlabs.org
 > >
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > -- 
 > Basanta Shrestha
 > Network Engineer
 > Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal
 > Tel: +977.1.5544441, 5520075 Ext. 303
 > Cell: +977.9818 605110
 > http://www.olenepal.org
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