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X-Keyboard Mapping
(Not applicable to UniMM font and it's still under development. But UniMM will base on UniBurma.)
You must have a root privilege to do the following task.
Every command instructions will be separated by pressing enter.
From terminal,
# tar -xzvf UniBurma_Keyboard-Beta.tar.gz
# ls
(check whether you can find UniBurma_Keyboard-Beta, if yes, continue else path to
download/unpack directory accordingly and continue.)
# sudo username
# cp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/mm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/mm_org
# cp /root/UniBurma_Keyboard-Beta/pc/mm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/
# cp: overwrite '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/mm'? yes
# cp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/mm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/mm_org
# cp /root/UniBurma_Keyboard-Beta/mm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/
# cp: overwrite '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/mm'? yes
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to restart the X or just simply restart your machine.
Note: /root/UniBurma_Keyboard-Beta is where you downloaded and unpacked the UniBurma Keyboard folder.
Please change it accordingly to your unpacked directory.
To enable keyboard indicator in Gnome, Desktop > Preferences > Keyboard
At the keyboard preferences, goto layout tab, press the add button.
Scroll down to find "Burmese" and press ok.
Now goto taskbar panel(bottom of your desktop), right click on it and
select the "Add to Panel".
At the add to panel dialog, scroll down and find "Keyboard Indicator" and add it.
Now if you want to switch to Myanmar(Burmese) keyboard, just click on "USA" icon and
it will change to "Mmr" which stand for Myanmar.
To type in Myanmar, open up Openoffice writer/word and switch to Myanmar Keyboard by clicking
on indicator and switch to UniBurma Font accordingly.
Please refer to keylayout image under /root/UniBurma_Keyboard-Beta.
It is the same instruction and manner to KDE, CDE and Xfce also. As long as, Linux/Unix is using X.org
or X11R6. For the Unix and Solaris(JDE), just follow up the directory accordingly.
It is not complete yet and i will try to finish the complete kb as soon as possiable. According to
keylayout image, you can test the key alone and shift which is most essential usage in today Myanmar
language.
UPDATED GUIDE & SOURCE
Keyboard Input Method (Only for Unicode Font user)
Keyboard install and enable input method for unicode font user, please open console/terminal and follow the steps in exact order.
Fedora Core 4
[code]
#cd
#wget http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/uniburma/UniBurma_Keyboard-Beta.tar.gz
#tar -xzvf UniBurma_Keyboard-Beta.tar.gz
#cd UniBurma*
#sudo cp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/mm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/mm.bak
#sudo cp pc/mm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/
#cp: overwrite '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/mm'? yes
#sudo cp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/mm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/mm.bak
#sudo cp mm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/
#cp: overwrite '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/mm'? yes
[/code]
Fedora Core 6
[code]
#cd /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols
#sudo cp mm mm.bak
#sudo rm -v mm
#wget http://www.mmglug.org/downloads/keyboard/mm
[/code]
OR you can easily download and run the following shell script.
[code]
#cd
#wget http://www.mmglug.org/downloads/keyboard/installkb
#sudo sh installkb
[/code]
Ubuntu (Tested on Dapper Drake 6.06)
[code]
#cd /etc/X11/xkb/symbols
#sudo cp mm mm.bak
#sudo rm -v mm
#sudo wget http://www.mmglug.org/downloads/keyboard/mm
[/code]
Finally, Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to restart the X or just simply restart your machine.
To enable keyboard indicator in Gnome:
[code]Desktop (or) System > Preferences > Keyboard[/code]
1.Find Keyboard and click it bring up window.
2.At the Keyboard preferences, goto Layout tab, press the Add button.
3.Scroll down to find "Myanmar" or "Burmese" and press OK.
4.Now goto taskbar panel(bottom of your desktop), right click on it and select the "Add to Panel".
5.At the add to panel dialog, scroll down and find "Keyboard Indicator" and add it.
(Fedora)
(Ubuntu)
6.Now if you want to switch to Myanmar(Burmese) keyboard, just click on "USA" icon and it will change to "Mmr" which stand for Myanmar.
7.To type in Myanmar, open up Openoffice writer/word/gedit and switch to Myanmar Keyboard by clicking on indicator and switch to your unicode Font accordingly.
Gedit Testing on Ubuntu


