Latin American Spanish Keyboard

[dhinds]

I see that a stable version of Petite is now available and I
downloaded and burned the iso image to a CD to try it on a Lenovo
ThinkPad X100e with a Latin American Spanish Keyboard.

I had difficulty configuring the Petite 11.4 Beta for Latin American
Spanish Keyboard a few weeks ago so I thought I'd ask here how to do
that, first.

Thanks in advance,

dhinds

[vatsers]

Generally speaking there is scim installed which is supposed to take
care of any language needs.
Usage of scim is pretty straight forward.
Go to any place with text input, i.e. open a leafpad window or
something, hit ctrl+space which will pop up the scim panel in the
bottom right corner. Click on the "english" button and you can choose
your language from a large list.

However even though I don't know anything about the latin american
spanish keyboard / language, as far as I can see it may not be
available in scim.
So I had a search on google and found you a plan B.
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Plan B: (only if scim fails)
Open a terminal (i.e. gnome terminal) and paste the following:
setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us,es -option grp:alt_shift_toggle

You should now be able to switch to spanish by hitting alt+shift :)

To make it persist after boot, do the following.

Open leafpad
paste the following:

setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us,es -option grp:alt_shift_toggle
export BROWSER=/usr/bin/open_enl
enlightenment_start


Save As ... -> name the file: .xinitrc
(note the . -> it won't work otherwise)

Note: Plan B will also work for other languages that may not be
present in scim, simply by changing the es to something else, i.e. bg
for bulgarian, el for greek etc.

Please let me know if it works for you.

Robert

[Xavi]

Hello, I'm using petite since a couple of weeks, and I realy like it. I'm using it in a netbook and the battery has increased the live! The only thing I cannot understand is why is so dificult to change the default keyboard language. In opensuse you set up the keuyboard from yast and that's all.

[vatsers]

Hi Xavi,

From last time we came accross the latin american keyboard, the
solution was in the end to just run the following in a terminal:
setxkbmap latam

To keep it permanently it had to be added to the ~/.xinitrc.

The suse layout tool is installed by default.
You can hit alt+esc and type layout, you should be able to start the
tool from there.

This along with some other issues I will try to address as best I can
in the petite 12.1 version, when it's ready.

Thanks,

Robert