[smc-discuss] [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] [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>
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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
>
>