Re: How to create a keyboard?

["C J Fynn" <cfynn gmx net>]

Noah

Thanks, I'll try this.

[I'm actually trying to create a "dz" layout for Bhutan - which has a different
layout than "bo-cn" even though the characters used are almost identical]

regards

- Chris

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CJ Fynn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Noah Levitt" <nlevitt@columbia.edu>
To: "C J Fynn" <cfynn@gmx.net>
Cc: <gnome-i18n@gnome.org>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 8:28 PM
Subject: Re: How to create a keyboard?


> xkb is the way to do this. Create a symbols file and put it
> in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc. You can look at the
> other files in that directory for examples. Set your
> keyboard to use that layout with setxkbmap, e.g.
>
>   setxkbmap -option "grp:shift_toggle" -layout "en,bo"
>
> where "bo" is the new symbols file. Toggle between the
> English and Tibetan layouts by pressing lshift+rshift.
> Hopefully this is enough to get you started.
>
> Noah
>
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at  5:35:56 -0000, C J Fynn wrote:
> > How does one create a simple keyboard for inputting Unicode Tibetan
characters
> > into
> > Gnome and / or X ???
> > --
> > Christopher J. Fynn
>