How to test & contribute my kbd layout, in xkb, for Tamil?

[veerasami]

:
Hi all,

     I'm interested to contribute a keyboard map, in Unicode, for the
Tamil
language, called VUTAM Type_As_You_Write. Even though in the present
encoding scheme of Unicode, for tamil, it requires an intelligent KBD
driver, for the time being it could be restricted to the present
capability of XKB. Once the encoding scheme is ratified to suit single
code for a key, it could be modified to suit the then situation.

        I've made the above kbd layout for Tamil, called VUTAM. Is there a way
to
make xkb recognise it, so that it could be tested? (by copying it to
some .xkb.symbols folder in my home folder, or something similar?).

       I'm awaiting a favourable response.

Thanking You,

V.Ramasami,
>From Aruppukottai, TamilNadu, India.
:
PS:
        (I)  I've contributed to SCIM, usable via M17N bridge. I've also
contributed to NHM writer, TakthiNT and KeytransU for windows OS.
        (II) I use Ubuntu 8.10.

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[Alan Coopersmith]

veerasami wrote:
>      I'm interested to contribute a keyboard map, in Unicode, for the
> Tamil
> language, called VUTAM Type_As_You_Write.

X.Org no longer maintains keyboard maps, but relies on those provided by
our sister project xkeyboard-config:
        http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig

Their process for contributing keyboard maps is described at:
   http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig/Development

> I've made the above kbd layout for Tamil, called VUTAM. Is there a way
> to
> make xkb recognise it, so that it could be tested? (by copying it to
> some .xkb.symbols folder in my home folder, or something similar?).

Can't you just add it to the /usr/share/X11/xkb files?   (You'll need to
use root to do so.)

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[veerasami]

:
Thank you Cooper,

I've successfully copied the layout file to the symbols folder of xkb;
but the layout is not recognised by xkb, even after a restart.

Any other solution?

VR.
:
PS: I'll try with wiki too.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith@...>
To: veerasami <v.ramasami@...>
Cc: xorg <xorg@...>
Subject: Re: How to test & contribute my kbd layout, in xkb, for Tamil?
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:35:58 -0800

veerasami wrote:
>      I'm interested to contribute a keyboard map, in Unicode, for the
> Tamil
> language, called VUTAM Type_As_You_Write.

X.Org no longer maintains keyboard maps, but relies on those provided by
our sister project xkeyboard-config:
        http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig

Their process for contributing keyboard maps is described at:
   http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig/Development

> I've made the above kbd layout for Tamil, called VUTAM. Is there a way
> to
> make xkb recognise it, so that it could be tested? (by copying it to
> some .xkb.symbols folder in my home folder, or something similar?).

Can't you just add it to the /usr/share/X11/xkb files?   (You'll need to
use root to do so.)


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