Lisi Reisz wrote: > My husband has just asked to do this. His system is vanilla from this > point > of view. (Mine is in a mess, with a messed-up scim and no foreign > fonts "working", but that is another story.) > > Advice please on the best way to achieve this for him. I.e., what do > those of you doing this or similar find works comfortably. > > Thanks, > Lisi
Hi, Lizi, let me share also my experience as I am using bg/ru/en/de on daily basis. I use TDE (as you may know already). In the keyboard setup I have few options to select. Most important is "phonetic" This results in following command setxkbdmap -model pc105 -layout bg -variant phonetic or Russian setxkbdmap -model pc105 -layout ru -variant phonetic Bulgarians/Russians have 1-2 conventional layouts for phonetic where Latin letters correspond to Cyrillic letter. The ones not present in the Latin alphabet are located on some other keys. You can search/google for the layout and write them on the keys with white permanent marker (after testing). Alternatively there are printed self glueing letters for keyboards you can order online. I never learned the "standard" Bulgarian layout as known from the type writers from the time before computers got in, so I find the phonetic really easy to use. I hope this helps regards PS: console is a different story, but I think you are not interested in typing Cyrillic in the console