Re: Help me setting malayalam/tamil/hindi keyboard/map

Thenks.I use GNOME only i'll try and post.


On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 09:22 +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 08:29:26AM +0530, Prakash Jose Kokkatt wrote:
> > Hello,
> > How can i set a keyboard in my local lang...btw i use Debian Etch
> > GNU/Linux.I need this to write/edit articles in ml.wikipedia.org such a 
> > way
> > that if i type malyalam in "English" it will show corresponding
> > Malayalam/Tamil.I understand that it needs to setup keymaps for those
> > LANGs.please help me ppl
> 
> If you use KDE or GNOME, then it is simple. GNOME, I don't recall now,
> but for KDE, Go to the Control Center, choose "Regional..." and there,
> choose "Keyboard Layouts". On the left, you'll find lots of different
> keyboard layouts on ce you enable keyboard layouts. Find the Malayalam
> and Tamil ones, and add them. Once you are done, you will notice that
> at the bottom right of your screen, there is an icon with the US flag
> (assuming your keyboard is a us layout). Clicking on it cycles through
> Malayalam, Tamil and back to English keyboards. I am sure there is a
> similar way in GNOME. Since you are using Debian etch, do
> 
> apt-get install ttf-malayalam-fonts ttf-tamil-fonts
> 
> if you have not done so already.
> 
> HTH.
> 
> Kumar
> 

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