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Ubuntu keyboard layout for EO

kelle poolt Torago, 22. juuli 2007

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Torago (Näita profiili) 22. juuli 2007 16:23.41

Yay, I found the keyboard layout for Esperanto in Ubuntu GNU/Linux 7.04 Feisty Fawn. Maybe this can help some people that use this operating system: Ubuntu EO keyboard layout

Instructions on getting it to work-
Applications->Add/Remove
Look for "language Support" and install that. Then go to System->Preferences->Keyboard. Click the 'Layouts' tab, press 'Add' select 'Esperanto' and press 'OK'. After this you may be wondering 'How do I switch between both my current layout to Esperanto layout and vice versa?". Well you can change the key combinations that change your current layout by going to the 'Layout Options' tab, clicking the triangular button on the left side of 'Group Shift/Lock Behavior' and selecting a combination of keys that you would to be the 'switch' for changing language keyboard layouts.

(By the way, you may want to print out that image as a reference to which keys do what)

I hope this helps fellow Ubuntu users! As for the other operating systems out there, I'm not sure yet but I can look them up if needed. Have fun ridego.gif

pastorant (Näita profiili) 23. juuli 2007 1:10.44

Good work. I suppose you know how to have KDE or Gnome in Linux as well okulumo.gif

For the keyboard, just remember that x is ĉ,
q is ŝ, w is ĵ, y is ĝ and ; is ŭ ridulo.gif

Torago (Näita profiili) 23. juuli 2007 3:58.21

Yeah, I'm not sure if it works in Xfce and Enlighten, but I'm not sure why it wouldn't.

Damir (Näita profiili) 30. juuli 2007 5:18.01

Hmm. Very cool, but I wouldn't suppose you'd know if there was an equivalent to the Windows program, "Ek," for Linux, would you? Like, if I type 'c' and then 'x' (or 'h,' if I choose) it turns into ĉ. It's a fantastic program, and I can shut it on and off at will when I'm multitasking between languages. xD

So far, I haven't been able to find anything similar. Have you?

Matthieu (Näita profiili) 30. juuli 2007 17:18.37

With my French keyboard I have the "^" key for vowels (â, ê, etc.). I enabled the compose key and now it works for Esperanto letters.
And for ŭ, I hit "compose, b, u".

erinja (Näita profiili) 30. juuli 2007 17:51.19

Damir:Hmm. Very cool, but I wouldn't suppose you'd know if there was an equivalent to the Windows program, "Ek," for Linux, would you? Like, if I type 'c' and then 'x' (or 'h,' if I choose) it turns into ĉ. It's a fantastic program, and I can shut it on and off at will when I'm multitasking between languages. xD

So far, I haven't been able to find anything similar. Have you?
I don't know of a program like that for Linux, but have you considered using an international keyboard layout? It does diacritics in a similar manner to what Mutusen mentioned for the French keyboard (type a 'diacritic key' and then the letter that gets the accent), but it does it for a lot of languages. It's a smidge slower than simply typing in the target language, but you wouldn't have to enact any kind of switch to type in a different languages, and words like Linux would not automatically be changed to Linŭ.

Also, for online use, a plug-in like AbcTajpu is useful if you use Firefox. It makes it easy to include or not include the diacritics.

Genjix (Näita profiili) 14. august 2007 12:40.00

also in ubuntu you can press CTRL + ALT + K to switch between keyboard layouts. Here the flag changes from gb union jack to eo grey flag.

hulten (Näita profiili) 26. august 2007 19:13.39

Mutusen:With my French keyboard I have the "^" key for vowels (â, ê, etc.). I enabled the compose key and now it works for Esperanto letters.
And for ŭ, I hit "compose, b, u".
I also use the compose key, but on my computer it only works for vowels (ô, â, etc.) and not for consonants (\^j, \^g, etc.). However, accidentally I found out that compose-key, u, u gives me the ŭ when I am in an (UTF-8) xterm, but not in my webbrowser (Seamonkey; I copied the vowel from my xterm).

Mutusen, I read that you use the compose key specifically to enable the latter. Am I missing something?

Now I am reading my xorg.conf and there is no compose options enabled. I am using a modified Logitech XkbModel, so that the multimedia keys work (in combination with xmodmap). I have a bad experience with changing any of the configuration, because it either disables the multimedia keys or for some reason I cannot switch to virtual consoles anymore (Alt-Ctrl-F1 etc.).

I experience the problems in Gentoo GNU/Linux (~x86) as well as in OpenBSD 4.1 (having the same X11 configuration).

Marco

RiotNrrd (Näita profiili) 26. august 2007 21:40.49

I think most Linux distros support multiple international keymaps. I'm on MEPIS Linux, but I know I had them under Kubuntu as well. They don't involve a diacritic key - you just switch maps and type. Since Esperanto doesn't use several of the qwerty keys, those keys are just remapped to Esperanto characters. So, after switching keymaps, I just need to type the x key and I get ĉ (and so on for the other letters, q = ŝ, w = ĵ, etc.).

Charlie (Näita profiili) 26. august 2007 22:03.02

I think you're right there RiotNrrd. It works just like that for me on PCLinuxOS

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