Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Florian Philipp <f.philipp@××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Activate russian layout
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:13:55
Message-Id: 200706051108.18794.f.philipp@addcom.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Activate russian layout by Marco Calviani
1 Am Dienstag 05 Juni 2007 10:04 schrieb Marco Calviani:
2 > Hi list,
3 > i'm running gentoo with a US keyboard layout. However i would like
4 > to add also a russian layout (with cyrillic fonts), to be used either
5 > with the console and inside X. First of all i've tried to "Enable
6 > keyboard layouts" with KDE, but when i try to write something with
7 > this enabled i've got only "????". Then i've tried also to add this
8 > section
9 >
10 > Option "XkbLayout" "us,ru"
11 > Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
12 >
13 > in xorg.conf but with no success.
14 >
15 > Anyone can give me some hints on how to perform this operation?
16 >
17 > Thanks in advance,
18 > marco
19
20 Did you make the last step on this here [1] with the right settings?
21 Are you sure that there are cyrillic fonts istalled? "emerge -s cyrillic"
22 shows me that I could install several which are all masked.
23
24 [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=6