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

[Nandakumar Edamana]

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Subject: 	Re: [smc-discuss] [Fwd: Re: [x-post] Regression in gnome 
keyboard layout selection, all Indian xkb layouts disappeared]
Date: 	Fri, 1 Sep 2017 11:05:07 +0530
From: 	Nandakumar Edamana <nandakumar at nandakumar.co.in>
To: 	nikhil nambiar <nikhilnambiarcm at gmail.com>



Solved! I tried it only today. I have been using my custom script and 
shortcut all these days. I hope it was solved because I install all 
updates regularly, and not because of any tweaks that I made (then only 
we can say the bug was fixed). But wait... I had changed a file after 
reading that bug report and reply. I remember that having some positive 
changes. So somebody else has to check it on a fresh system.


On Friday 01 September 2017 10:33 AM, nikhil nambiar wrote:
> hi,
>
> Any updates about this bug.
>
> On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 3:26 PM, Nandakumar Edamana 
> <nandakumar at nandakumar.co.in <mailto: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
>     <mailto:nandakumar at nandakumar.co.in>>
>     Date:    Mon, July 3, 2017 3:08 pm
>     To:      "Pirate Praveen" <praveen at onenetbeyond.org
>     <mailto: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
>     <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
>     <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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