Re: Typing Cyrillic script with a UK keyboard in an en-gb setting
On 09/24/2016 05:07 PM, davidson@freevolt.org wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Sep 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
>> My husband has just asked to do this. His system is vanilla from this point
>> of view. (Mine is in a mess, with a messed-up scim and no foreign
>> fonts "working", but that is another story.)
>>
>> Advice please on the best way to achieve this for him. I.e., what do those of
>> you doing this or similar find works comfortably.
>
> This is what I use in my /etc/default/keyboard file:
>
> $ grep '^[^#]' /etc/default/keyboard
> XKBMODEL="pc101"
> XKBLAYOUT="us,ru,sy"
> XKBVARIANT=""
> XKBOPTIONS="grp:caps_toggle,compose:menu"
> BACKSPACE="guess"
>
> The "ru" portion of the XKBLAYOUT value, and the "grp:caps_toggle"
> setting in XKBOPTIONS are the relevant parts for your purposes.
>
> It makes capslock a toggle between en_US, russian, and syrian arabic
> keyboard layout.
That's a valid way of doing this (most desktop environments allow you
to define multiple keyboard layouts + a shortcut to switch without you
having to fiddle with Xkb btw.), I personally find it really hard
though to write Cyrillic with a Russian keyboard layout, if the
characters aren't printed on the keyboard. Of course, I grew up with
the Latin layout, and I don't have any real muscle memory for the
Cyrillic layout. (Typing then would be a LOT of trial and error for
me.)
If you indeed grew up on a Russion keyboard, your suggestion of just
switching the layout is probably the easier solution. It's just not
something I'd personally be able to use in any efficient manner.
Regards,
Christian
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