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Topic: [SOLVED] Installing 2nd keyboard & language (Bulgarian/Cryillic) ?

Hi.
I'm a native Bulgarian and would like to be able to switch between typing in Cyrillic (Bulgarian) and English. I'm new to Linux and love it so far.
I googled and checked the forums but no luck so far. My husband doesn't know either (he's fairly new as well).
When we installed #! we used just the default English and keyboard layout  (I forget if there was an option to add other languages and keyboard layouts!)...


So now that we've got it installed, how do I install my native language as a 2nd language, and set up a key combo or some way to switch between the two frequently?
Thank you so much.

Much obliged!

...

Last edited by CheekyBangBang (2009-12-16 07:26:14)

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing 2nd keyboard & language (Bulgarian/Cryillic) ?

Edit your autostart.sh file and change:

setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:shifts_toggle,grp_led:scroll gb,us,de,fr &

to

setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:shifts_toggle,grp_led:scroll us,bg &

iirc to switch between layouts press both shift keys.

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  • Registered: 2009-02-15
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Re: [SOLVED] Installing 2nd keyboard & language (Bulgarian/Cryillic) ?

Здравейте и добре дошли!

Anonymous beat me to the reply while I was trying to figure out how to type in Cyrillic on this computer! big_smilelol

In addition to what he said, you could also try installing an application like fbxkb, which will put a little icon in your systray (near the volume icon, etc.) that you can click on to switch between keyboard layouts.

The thing you want to avoid doing, though, is simply typing "setxkbmap bg" in the terminal, because that will switch you to a Bulgarian keyboard layout, and then you will be typing in Cyrillic and you won't be able to type "setxkbmap us" or "setxkbmap gb" to  go back to English!

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing 2nd keyboard & language (Bulgarian/Cryillic) ?

чудесен! благодаря! (Awesome! Thank you!)! thank you for the welcome too.
I'll be on it in the morning... You guys are so good at this stuff... LOL!

These forums are so cool. I post and within 6 hours someone says "...42!"
(vague reference to Marvin, right? Anyone...??? LOL)

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing 2nd keyboard & language (Bulgarian/Cryillic) ?

I don't recall Marvin ever addressing The Ultimate Question Of Life, The Universe, And Everything.  I do recall excessive hyperbole about his ennui and the size of his brain...

Last edited by pvsage (2009-12-12 08:33:19)

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  • Registered: 2009-08-15
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Re: [SOLVED] Installing 2nd keyboard & language (Bulgarian/Cryillic) ?

Hey that worked fine.
Took me a few minutes to find and figure out where and what my autostart.sh file was
and then to edit out the "#" to activate the code...

"#setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:shifts_toggle,grp_led:scroll gb,us,de,fr &"
to
"setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:shifts_toggle,grp_led:scroll us,bg &"

Thanks again!!!!
cool

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing 2nd keyboard & language (Bulgarian/Cryillic) ?

I`ll suggest using lwin to toggle... it is useless already!За превключване използвам ляв/десен уиндоуски бутон-така или иначе е безполезен!

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing 2nd keyboard & language (Bulgarian/Cryillic) ?

Много българи бре! smile (a lot of Bulgarians around here)

  • Registered: 2010-07-18
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Re: [SOLVED] Installing 2nd keyboard & language (Bulgarian/Cryillic) ?

I did the same way but nothing changes plz help :-)

My native language is Georgian (Ge) and want to switch between English and Georgian 

# Set-up keyboard maps and sytem tray switcher
# tip - quickly toggle between keyboard maps by holding both shift keys!
#setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:shifts_toggle,grp_led:scroll us,ge &
#(sleep 1s && fbxkb) &
# ^^ note: if using the LiveCD, you can also change to a different
#          keyboard map by entering the terminal command:
#              setxkbmap xx
#          Where "xx" is the 2 letter country code.

I guess everything is right but im not able to switch between thous languages

  • Registered: 2010-07-20
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Re: [SOLVED] Installing 2nd keyboard & language (Bulgarian/Cryillic) ?

On how to write this line, if you use three encoding USA (us), Lithuania (lt), Russian (ru "phonetic")
thoughtsmile
setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:shifts_toggle,grp_led:scroll us,lt,ru -variant ",,phonetic    "&

Last edited by tomasmazas (2010-07-20 11:45:02)

  • Registered: 2010-07-18
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Re: [SOLVED] Installing 2nd keyboard & language (Bulgarian/Cryillic) ?

well Gutterslob helped me on irc and now im able to switch between two languages smile  but now i wanna to switch it by pressing alt+shift instead of both shifts 
i think i must change this:

switch,grp:shifts_toggle

but dunno how  smile

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing 2nd keyboard & language (Bulgarian/Cryillic) ?

grp:alt_shift_toggle smile

  • Registered: 2010-07-18
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Re: [SOLVED] Installing 2nd keyboard & language (Bulgarian/Cryillic) ?

bozhkov wrote:

grp:alt_shift_toggle smile


Its works thx dude smile