basanta wrote: > Amazingly changing the manufacturing data didn't do the job but changing > /etc/sysconfig/keyboard did. Wow! Now I have Nepali input system. Thank you > all.
i believe /etc/sysconfig/keyboard is created on first boot, using information gleaned from manufacturing data. see /usr/sbin/olpc-configure for details. this would explain why changing the manufacturing tags didn't help -- they've already been consulted, on your test laptop. paul > > Now I need to find a place to change default locale to ne_NP, so that the > default interface is in Nepali. There is an option to do this in > manufacturing data but it would be better if it can be done using file. > -basanta > > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Walter Bender > <walter.ben...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > Makes things much easier. Now you just have to change the > > manufacruring data as was suggested earlier, but you don't need to > > modify the xkb symbol table. > > > > Good luck. > > > > -walter > > > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 4:24 AM, James Cameron <qu...@laptop.org> wrote: > > > Okay, that is consistent with the data we have for the SKU311 > > > mentioned by Samuel on 8th November. > > > > > > The divide and multiply key is the language switch key. > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 01:36:35PM +0545, Basanta Shrestha wrote: > > >> The laptops(XO-4) have arrived but it turns out the keyboard is the > > other one > > >> the rubber one (Improved Membrane Keyboard ?). > > >> -Basanta > > >> > > >> > > >> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Basanta Shrestha < > > >> basanta.shres...@olenepal.org> wrote: > > >> > > >> D > > >> > > >> > > >> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Daniel Drake <d...@laptop.org> > > wrote: > > >> > > >> On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:18 PM, James Cameron < > > qu...@laptop.org> > > >> wrote: > > >> > If you need to scale up this change to many laptops, contact > > >> > reu...@laptop.org or myself. I must know the SKU number. > > >> > > >> In the particular case of changing language/keyboard defaults > > as we > > >> are discussing, instead of changing manufacturing data I would > > >> recommend doing it via olpc-os-builder, configuration for > > [base], see > > >> > > http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/olpc-os-builder/tree/modules/base/ > > >> README#n46 > > >> > > >> > > >> Doing it via olpc-os-builder would be easier especially when we be > > having > > >> more than 200 laptops to work on. This way we won't have to deal > > with each > > >> and every laptop. So the lines I would have to add would be > > following : > > >> > > >> [base] > > >> default_language=us > > >> > > >> default_kbd_model=us > > >> default_kbd_layout=us > > >> default_kbd_variant=np > > >> > > >> > > >> But where do we set the key combination to switch between default > > and > > >> nepali. I would like to assign alt+space or alt+shift as > > combination. > > >> > > >> Note: We need to set default layout to english. Nepali input is only > > >> required for few activities in Epaath and for typing document in > > Nepali. > > >> > > >> -basanta > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Basanta Shrestha > > >> Network Engineer > > >> Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal > > >> Tel: +977.1.5544441, 5520075 Ext. 303 > > >> Cell: +977.9818 605110 > > >> http://www.olenepal.org > > > > > > -- > > > James Cameron > > > http://quozl.linux.org.au/ > > > > > > > > -- > > Walter Bender > > Sugar Labs > > http://www.sugarlabs.org > > > > > > -- > Basanta Shrestha > Network Engineer > Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Nepal > Tel: +977.1.5544441, 5520075 Ext. 303 > Cell: +977.9818 605110 > http://www.olenepal.org > part 2 text/plain 153 > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel =--------------------- paul fox, p...@laptop.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
