[smc-discuss] [Fwd: Re: [x-post] Regression in gnome keyboard layout selection, all Indian xkb layouts disappeared]

[nikhil nambiar]

hi,

Any updates about this bug.

On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 3:26 PM, Nandakumar Edamana <
nandakumar at nandakumar.co.in> wrote:

> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: Re: [smc-discuss] [x-post] Regression in gnome keyboard layout
> selection, all Indian xkb layouts disappeared
> From:    "Nandakumar Edamana" <nandakumar at nandakumar.co.in>
> Date:    Mon, July 3, 2017 3:08 pm
> To:      "Pirate Praveen" <praveen at onenetbeyond.org>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Also, what happened to GNOME Character Map? I opened it (or its
> replacement) to get the codepoint of ൗ to edit the xkb file to replace the
> old ൗ with െ. I was disappointed. Without searching explicitly, you can't
> browse any non-English letters (even after selecting some Malayalam
> fonts).
>
> > On വെള്ളി 30 ജൂണ്‍ 2017 08:46 വൈകു, Nandakumar Edamana wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I noticed it too. Today I switched over to Debian 9. Installation itself
> >> was a tiresome job. The problem with the IM didn't surprise me as I had
> >> read your mail before.
> >>
> >> I found and followed this page, which says how we can turn of the new
> >> integrated IM:
> >>
> >> https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointFive/Features/IBus#
> How_to_use_other_IM_frameworks
> >>
> >> I tried fcitx, and contrary to what you said, it APPEARED on the left
> >> bottom part of the screen. IM selection was not that easy. I had to take
> >> the whole configuration screen and push the preferred layout to the top
> >> of
> >> the list each time I had to switch the layout (before that, I had added
> >> Malayalam, which was already available in fcitx - I had to turn of a
> >> checkbox though - 'Show current language only' - something like that).
> >
> > Glad that fcitx worked for you. The issue with blacklisting has been
> > resolved upstream. We need to update xkb-data package in debian with
> > this change.
> >
> >> This is of course irritating. But this page taught me the commands to
> >> switch IM easily:
> >>
> >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Keyboard_layouts
> >>
> >> So I wrote a shell script:
> >>
> >>
> >> #!/bin/sh
> >>
> >> if [ -f /tmp/ml ]; then
> >>      setxkbmap us
> >>      rm /tmp/ml
> >> else
> >>      setxkbmap in -variant mal
> >>      cat /dev/null > /tmp/ml
> >> fi
> >>
> >> Then I created a shortcut for it (which was the next difficult thing
> >> since
> >> GNOME Shell eats up all combinations). What I have now chosen is Right
> >> Ctrl + Menu.
> >>
> >> This is of course not a real solution. But it works for the time being.
> >>
> >> Nandakumar Edamana
> >
> >
>
>
>
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