Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons & olpc keyboard

2013-06-24 Thread Jerry Vonau
On 24 June 2013 06:43, Walter Bender wrote: > Which build are you running? In the latest Sugar builds, there is a > keyboard settings control panel section. We could probably backport it > to your build if it is reasonably recent. > > In OLPC's & Dextrose's versions of sugar the sugar-cp-keyboard

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons & olpc keyboard

2013-06-24 Thread Walter Bender
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Jerry Vonau wrote: > > > On 24 June 2013 06:43, Walter Bender wrote: >> >> Which build are you running? In the latest Sugar builds, there is a >> keyboard settings control panel section. We could probably backport it >> to your build if it is reasonably recent. >>

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons & olpc keyboard

2013-06-24 Thread Walter Bender
Could you please try with the latest version of Turtle Art (v182)? thx -walter On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Barry Vercoe wrote: > Hi, on SHC 205002233 > running 13.1.0 for XO-1.75 (build 20) > with Sugar 0.98.2 > firmware Q4D24 > > For Text in both Write and Turtle Art (the Titl

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons & olpc keyboard

2013-06-24 Thread Barry Vercoe
Hi, on SHC 205002233 running 13.1.0 for XO-1.75 (build 20) with Sugar 0.98.2 firmware Q4D24 For Text in both Write and Turtle Art (the Title panel): vowel + altgr - gives the Combining Macron, i.e. two bkspcs to remove the letter But if either Activity is saved to the Journal and

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons & olpc keyboard

2013-06-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 24/06/2013 9:43 PM, "Walter Bender" wrote: > > Which build are you running? In the latest Sugar builds, there is a > keyboard settings control panel section. We could probably backport it > to your build if it is reasonably recent. I remember that perhaps a year ago we had to remove the keyboa

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons & olpc keyboard

2013-06-25 Thread Walter Bender
The widget was broken until recently. Not sure my patches have landed in any releases yet. But we should be able to make a layout that works for both English and Maori without any end-user intervention. Will try to get to it this week. -walter On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons & olpc keyboard

2013-06-26 Thread Tom Parker
On 26/06/13 00:22, Barry Vercoe wrote: > Tom, it's not correct to say the laptops will remain in Maori. Sorry, I should have clarified that I was referring to the keyboard only. I think the difference between the current olpc keyboard and a customized Maori one will be minor. We'll replace the æ

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons & olpc keyboard

2013-06-26 Thread Tom Parker
On 26/06/13 10:52, Walter Bender wrote: The widget was broken until recently. Not sure my patches have landed in any releases yet. But we should be able to make a layout that works for both English and Maori without any end-user intervention. Will try to get to it this week. Attached is a patch

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons & olpc keyboard

2013-07-01 Thread Tom Parker
On 26/06/13 22:16, Tom Parker wrote: What is the best way to modify the laptops? Copying modified output of xkbcomp to /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/mi and running setxkbmap mi does the trick, but setting the content of /home/olpc/.Xkbmap to mi does not make this the default after reboot. There

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons & olpc keyboard

2013-07-01 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 07:35:03PM +1200, Tom Parker wrote: > xkbcomp $DISPLAY orig.xkb > patch -p0 sudo cp orig.xkb /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/mi > sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/keyboard > ... > > Is Jerry's xs.custom > http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2013-June/006510.html > suitable for

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons & olpc keyboard

2013-07-05 Thread Tom Parker
On 01/07/13 19:53, James Cameron wrote: On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 07:35:03PM +1200, Tom Parker wrote: xkbcomp $DISPLAY orig.xkb patch -p0 http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2013-June/006510.html suitable for customizing an XO? Yes. It would apply the changes you describe reasonably

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons & olpc keyboard

2013-07-05 Thread Jerry Vonau
On 5 July 2013 07:01, Tom Parker wrote: > On 01/07/13 19:53, James Cameron wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 07:35:03PM +1200, Tom Parker wrote: >> >>> xkbcomp $DISPLAY orig.xkb >>> patch -p0 >> sudo cp orig.xkb /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/mi >>> sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/keyboard >>> ... >>> >>> I

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons & olpc keyboard

2013-07-05 Thread Tom Parker
On 06/07/13 05:37, Jerry Vonau wrote:> > > On 5 July 2013 07:01, Tom Parker > wrote: > > I now have a USB that re-flashes if you hold down the game keys, > reboots, sets the timezone, the language and the keyboard and then > prompts the user to press enter to

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons & olpc keyboard

2013-07-05 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 09:00:42AM +1200, Tom Parker wrote: > On 06/07/13 05:37, Jerry Vonau wrote:> > > > > On 5 July 2013 07:01, Tom Parker > > wrote: > > > > I now have a USB that re-flashes if you hold down the game keys, > > reboots, sets the timezone, the lan