How to add a new keyboard layout in FC5

Atique · #1 13th April 2006, 07:57 AM

Hi all,
Can someone tell me how can I add a new keyboard layout (Urdu phonetic - http://www.crulp.org/linuxphonetickb.html, it is right-to-left complex script like arabic) in FC5?

I could do it in FC4 by changing /etc/X11/xkb/symbols but in FC5 I cannot find xkb. Has something changed in FC5. If so, what to do now. I fresh installed FC5 using downloaded CD images.

Jman · #2 13th April 2006, 05:14 PM

Seems it's under /usr/share/X11/xkb somewhere.

I'm not very familar with xkb maps, read some of the man pages listed with

Code:

apropos xkb

for more information.

Atique · #3 14th April 2006, 08:08 AM

Thanks a lot, I have done it in /usr/share/X11/xkb. It works perfectly in KDE.
thanks again

dewangpm · #4 14th April 2006, 08:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Atique

Thanks a lot, I have done it in /usr/share/X11/xkb. It works perfectly in KDE.
thanks again

Please mention a detail procedure for others
HOW DID YOU DO IT ?

dewang

Atique · #5 17th April 2006, 04:48 AM

I downloaded the xkb definition file:
http://www.crulp.org/Downloads/ur.txt

copied it as /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ur

made an entry in /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst
Find the lines as:

! layout
en_US U.S. Engilsh
.
.
.
ur Urdu
. . .

then in terminal (or konsole) entered:

cd /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/
xkbcomp -lhlpR '*' -o ../symbols.dir

(don't ask me what it means, I don't know!)

Finally in KDE Comtrol Center, enabled Keyboard Layouts, and selected the newly entered entry for Urdu.
and that's it !