Short term solution; - switch to a virtual console (alt+ctrl+F1 or alt+ctrl+F2) F1 is the mesh view key and F2 the friends view key - edit /home/olpc/.i18n - nano /home/olpc/.i18n - LANG="en_US.UTF-8" - ctrl+o for save and ctrl+x for quitting
You can not use the sugar-control-panel in the virtual console - this is known (#5819). long-term: better control panel with graphical frontend HTH, Simon James wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Following the first 4 instructions at > <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ethiopian_Setup > > I have managed to set my G1G1 XO laptop to accept input in > Amharic. That's the good news. > > The bad news is that I can no longer switch back to a US keyboard. > > Even commands typed into the Terminal now appear in Amharic, and > refuse to execute. I can use the arrow keys in the Terminal to replay > the sequence of commands that led to editing /etc/sysconfig/keyboard > in nano, but I cannot get nano to save my changes. If I use ^O to > Write Out the file, I find myself in the Journal, but nano is still > open in the Terminal. If I use ^X to Exit nano, it asks if I want to > save the modified buffer. Typing "y" produces an Amharic character > which vaguely resembles a Q, and which nano refuses to recognize. > > The page at <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ethiopian_Setup> helpfully > suggests that: > > You can toggle between the us and the et layouts by hitting the > group switch key, which is mapped to the rightmost key below enter > (labeled multiply/divide on US keyboards). > > In my experience, pressing this key inserts an x character. No > combination of modifier keys along with the group switch key seems to > have the desired effect. > > Any help in getting my XO back to its initial US settings would be > appreciated. (Ideally, I'd like to be able to switch between the two > on a regular basis). > > Thanks in advance, > > James > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel