Re: How to create a keyboard?

["Pedro M." <pmacv telefonica net>]

I have include the answer in
http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GnomeFrequentlyAskedQuestions

More people can add more information and experienca.

Regards.

Power to Gnome!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "C J Fynn" <cfynn@gmx.net>
To: "Noah Levitt" <nlevitt@columbia.edu>
Cc: <gnome-i18n@gnome.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 12:08 AM
Subject: Re: How to create a keyboard?


> 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
>
> --
> 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
> >
>
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