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This really *is* a mini-how-to. The intention of this howto is not to explain what is xkb symbol file, or how to create
a new layout, etc. There are tons of places on the web where one can find a better and more in-depth HOWTO about Xfree86
keyboard[layout/xkb/etc].
There is nothing special about setting up a Bengali Keyboard, just follow the steps described below. Remember
everything you need in the following steps can be downloaded from the
download section of Ankur's web page, except the machine and the OS :)
Setting Bengali keyboard through configuration file
There is
On your system you are most likely to use a different value for -symbols option. Let me explain what they mean, then
you can decide what should be the value for your system. My default keyboard layout for X is us(pc101). If you don't know what is the default
you use, check the XF86Config file. As the Bengali keyboard layout is defined in the second group we can simple add everything
from ben to our keyboard layout. Now you have setup your keyboard with us(pc101) as group one and ben as
your second group. What does that mean? Well in simple words: with X you can have different layouts in different groups and you
can switch between these different layouts. And that is exactly why we added group(ctrl_shift_toggle)! This means we
can switch between the two groups by pressing control+shit buttons together. Matter of fact there are other options for the toggle
switch. If your XFree86 is new enough, you will find a file named group in the same directory you copied ben. If
your system does not have this file do not worry. You can use an option like grp:shift_toggle which will toggle by pressing
both shift buttons. In which case your command becomes:
> setxkbmap -symbols "us(pc101)+ben" -option "grp:shift_toggle"
If you would like to use the phonetic keyboard layout (which can be found at the download section), please replace the word "ben"
with "ben(probhat)" in the above mentioned commands.
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