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ariskon

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[SOLVED] How to add keyboard language

Need some help on how to add a new keyboard language and on how to switch keyboard layouts. Thank you!

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2016-11-07 07:23:21)

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Re: [SOLVED] How to add keyboard language

Documentation here: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard

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Re: [SOLVED] How to add keyboard language

Need some help on how to add a new keyboard language and on how to switch keyboard layouts. Thank you!

If you are using Debian Jessie,

sudo apt-get install ibus

then call ibus-setup in gmrun or in terminal. It'd ask if you want to start ibus, click yes. IBus Preferences > Input Method and add keyboard layouts. It'd appear in your system tray.

The screenshot in this thread would show how the keyboard switcher stays in system tray. https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 2371#p2371

Last edited by nobody0 (2015-10-12 15:10:17)

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Re: [SOLVED] How to add keyboard language

Documentation here: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard

And then in "~/.config/openbox/autostart" something like this:

### Keyboard Switcher ###
## Start keyboard with 3 language mapping by Omen
## setxkbmap -layout 'us,ua,ru' -option 'grp:alt_shift_toggle' &
##setxkbmap -layout 'latam,es' &
(sleep 3s && fbxkb && setxkbmap latam,es) &
##(sleep 1s && fbxkb) &

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nobody0

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Re: [SOLVED] How to add keyboard language

You can find Ibus info here; https://packages.debian.org/jessie/utils/ibus

pingu

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Re: [SOLVED] How to add keyboard language

I like setting mine in my xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf file:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "system-keyboard"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        Option "XkbLayout" "us,br,gr" 
        Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
        Option "XkbVariant" ", ,polytonic"
        Option "XkbOptions" "grp:shifts_toggle"
EndSection

This way I have the same config across desktops/wms

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ariskon

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Re: [SOLVED] How to add keyboard language

Thank you everybody! Everything was helpful! The easier method was to install ibus.

attila123

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Re: [SOLVED] How to add keyboard language

Hi,
I tried ibus, but I had 2 major problems with that:
- For some reason I could not set any variant for the keyboard, I think the "Preferences" button was disabled on the GUI
- Even if I could set alt + shift to switch the keyboards, it did not work for some reason, but alt + shift + space worked.

I wanted to set:
- us keyboard (which I already learned with Commodore 64 :) )
- hungarian keyboard but with 101 keys (so that 'z' and 'y' are in the same position as with the us keyboard, 'z' in the bottom line)
- I wanted to use alt + shift to switch between them

So ibus did not work for me and I needed to dig deeper and based on the https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard linked above + 'man 5 keyboard' + my successful XFCE keyboard setting in Xubuntu (xfce4-settings-editor -> keyboard-layout section), I managed to come up with the following /etc/default/keyboard config file:

# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us,hu"
XKBVARIANT=",101_qwerty_comma_nodead"
XKBOPTIONS="grp:alt_shift_toggle"

BACKSPACE="guess"

Based on https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard I tried

sudo service keyboard-setup restart

but I think it was somehow not enough so I also tried the following command from that page, which worked:

sudo udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change

Then I tested that this keyboard setting is preserved across reboot, and purged the useless ibus from my system.
Now I don't have any feedback in the tint2 panel about which keyboard layout is active, but I don't need it either.
I hope this helps someone. :)

Last edited by attila123 (2016-11-06 20:15:00)

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Re: [SOLVED] How to add keyboard language

I hope this helps someone.

Thanks for posting

I have marked the thread [SOLVED] so that people can find this more easily.

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