Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons olpc keyboard

2013-07-05 Thread Tom Parker
On 01/07/13 19:53, James Cameron wrote: On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 07:35:03PM +1200, Tom Parker wrote: xkbcomp $DISPLAY orig.xkb patch -p0 maori.patch sudo cp orig.xkb /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/mi sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/keyboard ... Is Jerry's xs.custom

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons olpc keyboard

2013-07-05 Thread Jerry Vonau
On 5 July 2013 07:01, Tom Parker t...@carrott.org wrote: On 01/07/13 19:53, James Cameron wrote: On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 07:35:03PM +1200, Tom Parker wrote: xkbcomp $DISPLAY orig.xkb patch -p0 maori.patch sudo cp orig.xkb /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/mi sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/keyboard ...

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons olpc keyboard

2013-07-05 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 09:00:42AM +1200, Tom Parker wrote: On 06/07/13 05:37, Jerry Vonau wrote: On 5 July 2013 07:01, Tom Parker t...@carrott.org mailto:t...@carrott.org wrote: I now have a USB that re-flashes if you hold down the game keys, reboots, sets the timezone, the

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons olpc keyboard

2013-07-01 Thread Tom Parker
On 26/06/13 22:16, Tom Parker wrote: What is the best way to modify the laptops? Copying modified output of xkbcomp to /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/mi and running setxkbmap mi does the trick, but setting the content of /home/olpc/.Xkbmap to mi does not make this the default after reboot. There

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons olpc keyboard

2013-07-01 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 07:35:03PM +1200, Tom Parker wrote: xkbcomp $DISPLAY orig.xkb patch -p0 maori.patch sudo cp orig.xkb /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/mi sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/keyboard ... Is Jerry's xs.custom http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2013-June/006510.html

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons olpc keyboard

2013-06-26 Thread Tom Parker
On 26/06/13 10:52, Walter Bender wrote: The widget was broken until recently. Not sure my patches have landed in any releases yet. But we should be able to make a layout that works for both English and Maori without any end-user intervention. Will try to get to it this week. Attached is a

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons olpc keyboard

2013-06-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 24/06/2013 9:43 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: Which build are you running? In the latest Sugar builds, there is a keyboard settings control panel section. We could probably backport it to your build if it is reasonably recent. I remember that perhaps a year ago we had to

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons olpc keyboard

2013-06-25 Thread Walter Bender
The widget was broken until recently. Not sure my patches have landed in any releases yet. But we should be able to make a layout that works for both English and Maori without any end-user intervention. Will try to get to it this week. -walter On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons olpc keyboard

2013-06-24 Thread Jerry Vonau
On 24 June 2013 06:43, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: Which build are you running? In the latest Sugar builds, there is a keyboard settings control panel section. We could probably backport it to your build if it is reasonably recent. In OLPC's Dextrose's versions of sugar the

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons olpc keyboard

2013-06-24 Thread Walter Bender
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Jerry Vonau je...@laptop.org.au wrote: On 24 June 2013 06:43, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: Which build are you running? In the latest Sugar builds, there is a keyboard settings control panel section. We could probably backport it to your

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons olpc keyboard

2013-06-24 Thread Walter Bender
Could you please try with the latest version of Turtle Art (v182)? thx -walter On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Barry Vercoe ba...@laptop.org.au wrote: Hi, on SHC 205002233 running 13.1.0 for XO-1.75 (build 20) with Sugar 0.98.2 firmware Q4D24 For Text in both Write and Turtle

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons olpc keyboard

2013-06-24 Thread Barry Vercoe
Hi, on SHC 205002233 running 13.1.0 for XO-1.75 (build 20) with Sugar 0.98.2 firmware Q4D24 For Text in both Write and Turtle Art (the Title panel): vowel + altgr - gives the Combining Macron, i.e. two bkspcs to remove the letter But if either Activity is saved to the Journal