slovak keyboard layout?

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: slovak keyboard layout?
started by: qbo

Posted by qbo on Nov. 06 2006,22:26

I`ve already read some forum topics regarding various keyboard layouts, searched google, wiki... and this is what I`ve already tried to do:
1. setting boot param. lang=sk. This did nothing, layout still default
2. boot options keymaps=sk xkeymaps=sk. Same result
3. dsl control panel button 'keyboard'. I tried experimenting with this one a little. There are some 5 or 6 slovak layouts (sk-qwerty/qwertz, sk-prog-qwerty/qwertz, sk, sk-prog, I`m not sure if this is completely correct). I`ve tried all of them. The only result is, that layout changes between qwerty and qwertz, I still can`t use any accents and so on. But when I tried some different layouts, like for example czech, it worked- I could use accents and everything (though I can`t say if it worked the way it was supposed to, because I don`t know correct czech layout...). This made me thing, that I should somehow get the proper slovak maps or something. I tried searching extensions and...
4. I found xkeymaps. It is a really great application! I used it to make my own layout, but there is still a problem. I didn`t figure out how to make it possible to assign special slovak characters, like ô, ľ, ť, č, ä. I can assign á, ý, í..., but my problem is this accent: ˇ

I would greatly appreciate any sort of help.
Thanks a lot for your time!

P.S.: When I was trying those layouts, I used nano, xshell, shell and Tim.

Posted by qbo on Nov. 06 2006,22:29

Wow!
Those characters seem to be really tricky!

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Nov. 06 2006,22:36

this might help.. < http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=3902 >

I also seem to recall seeing language settings in xsetup as well.

Posted by qbo on Nov. 06 2006,23:13

Thanks for your quick reply!
I tried the link, and as suggested by roberts, used command loadkeys. I tried, once again all sk-... layouts, but I didn`t notice any change-I tried each of them in nano and ted.
I also tried xsetup, but without any result.

Thanks again for your time.

Any other tips or suggestions are most welcome

I`ll try to solve it tomorrow once again.. Now I`m too tired to do anything....

Now good night everybody ;)

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Nov. 07 2006,14:43

Just wondering - did you (re)start X after each tweak?

Posted by qbo on Nov. 07 2006,17:27

yes, I did that each time

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Nov. 07 2006,21:25

Anything happen if you use some gtk/gtk2 program?

Posted by qbo on Nov. 08 2006,15:51

I tried it with gtk2 and abiword 2.2.7.
It reacts just like any other program.

When I switch to sk it keeps using the us layout = the only change I noticed is, that when I run keyboard in dsl panel, there is sk keyboard chosen.

When I switch to czech layout I can use some accents, but some characters seem not to be correctly displayed, like if there were only french and german accents, but not the central european ones - in places, where those should be are some characters, which definitely don`t belong to central europe, like ø or è. This could probably be solved by setting proper charset and/or fonts.

My problem is, that sk keyboard layout is not working at all...
Now I`ve got some time to explore, so I`ll try to find some solution today.
If you`ve got any more ideas, please let me know.

Thanks

Posted by qbo on Nov. 08 2006,17:34

Well, here is, what I found out today:

The fact, that when I switch to sk layout nothing really happens, was completely wrong. My fault, sorry for wasting your time... In one of the howtos, which I found today I learned, that everybody here except for me knows, that to access national characters in linux key altgr is often used... What made me even more confused was the fact, that with cz layout I didn`t have to use altgr.

Also I found out, that the accent, which I was missing in xkeycaps is called caron and it is really missing..

Now I have to somehow change charset to iso8859-2 and get some fonts, which would support those characters.

Again, sorry to everybody, who wasted his/her time due to this and especially thanks to ^thehatsrule^ for spending his precious time trying to help me out!

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Nov. 08 2006,18:14

no problem ;p

Login scripts set CHARSET=iso8559-1
You can also fool around with LANG and the LC* type variables. Don't know if the current fonts support it or not though.