KaGaPa phonetic layout for Gujarati keyboard
HOW TO USE?
Gujarati KaGaPa keyboard is now included in xkeyboard package. Using this only requires
setxkbmap in guj-kagapa
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Xkeyboard now supports custom keymaps. So adding keymap is easy. Just copy contents of guj_kagapa file to /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/custom. If custom file does not exists just create it. Done.
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- add contents of in_guj_kagapa file at the end of /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/in, you can use below command as root user
cat in_guj_kagapa >> /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/in
- let your system know about this,
add this line
guj-kagapa in: Gujarati (KaGaPa phonetic)
in two files, at appropriate place, ( after line starting with "guj" ), in /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst and /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.lst
Restart and now you can use Gujarati KaGaPa keyboard using
setxkbmap in guj-kagapa
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You can use Gujarati KaGaPa keyboard using
setxkbmap custom guj-kagapa
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How to type: characters are placed in four levels, to type level one just press the key, to type level2 use Shift+key, to type level 3 use AltGr+key, to type level 4 use AltGr+Shift+key. There is image file to help find characters.
You can revert back to us keyboard with
setxkbmap us
But don't ask me how to type that when you have activated gujarati keyboard. Have fun!!
EDIT: Ideally you should assign this setxkbmap command to keyboard, so you don't need to type them (which won't be possible anyway).