[gnome-user-docs] Adding keyboard layout page
- From: Ekaterina Gerasimova <egerasimov src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gnome-user-docs] Adding keyboard layout page
- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:21:13 +0000 (UTC)
commit 233f42c3995b3956609996018757452ae57f3c75
Author: minnie_eg <amany elguindy gmail com>
Date: Sun Dec 2 23:48:55 2012 +0200
Adding keyboard layout page
system-admin-guide/C/keyboard-layout.page | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
system-admin-guide/Makefile.am | 1 +
2 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/system-admin-guide/C/keyboard-layout.page b/system-admin-guide/C/keyboard-layout.page
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6aa92ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/system-admin-guide/C/keyboard-layout.page
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
+ type="topic" style="task"
+ id="keyboard-layout">
+ <info>
+ <revision pkgversion="3.4.2" version="0.1" date="2012-12-02" status="draft"/>
+ <link type="guide" xref="index" group="login" />
+
+ <credit type="author copyright">
+ <name>minnie_eg</name>
+ <email>amany elguindy gmail com</email>
+ <years>2012</years>
+ </credit>
+
+ <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
+
+ <desc>Populate the keyboard layout chooser on the login screen.</desc>
+ </info>
+
+ <title>Add multiple keyboard layouts from the login screen.</title>
+
+ <comment>
+ <cite date="2012-12-02" href="mailto:amany elguindy gmail com">Amany El-Guindy</cite>
+ <p>This assumes the reader knows how to edit files as root.
+ The reader will be able to add a list of keyboard layouts to the login screen, so that
+ usernames/passwords of different languages other than the default can be typed.</p>
+ </comment>
+
+ <steps>
+ <item>
+ <p>Find the code of the desired languages layouts in
+ <file>/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst</file>
+ under the section named <code>! layout</code>.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Add the layouts codes to <file>/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf</file>
+ as the following:</p>
+ <note style="notice">
+ <p>Multiple layouts can be added as a comma separated list as the example below for English and French layouts.</p>
+ </note>
+ <screen>
+ Section "InputClass"
+ Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
+ MatchIsKeyboard "on"
+ MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
+ Driver "evdev"
+ <input>Option "XkbLayout" "en,fr"</input>
+ EndSection
+ </screen>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Logout to find that the defined layouts are available on the top bar of the login screen.</p>
+ </item>
+ </steps>
+</page>
diff --git a/system-admin-guide/Makefile.am b/system-admin-guide/Makefile.am
index 457869e..f00f73a 100644
--- a/system-admin-guide/Makefile.am
+++ b/system-admin-guide/Makefile.am
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ HELP_FILES = \
fonts.page \
gsettings-browse.page \
index.page \
+ keyboard-layout.page \
lockdown.page \
lockscreenbackground.page \
login-background.page \
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