[gnome-user-docs] Update keyboard-layout.page
- From: Ekaterina Gerasimova <egerasimov src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gnome-user-docs] Update keyboard-layout.page
- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:21:18 +0000 (UTC)
commit ddfcabd9f48be2596ee539c4eb1a79b93691b7be
Author: Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>
Date: Mon Dec 10 23:08:57 2012 +0000
Update keyboard-layout.page
system-admin-guide/C/keyboard-layout.page | 38 +++++++++++++++++++----------
1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/system-admin-guide/C/keyboard-layout.page b/system-admin-guide/C/keyboard-layout.page
index 6aa92ca..f9d182b 100644
--- a/system-admin-guide/C/keyboard-layout.page
+++ b/system-admin-guide/C/keyboard-layout.page
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
type="topic" style="task"
id="keyboard-layout">
<info>
- <revision pkgversion="3.4.2" version="0.1" date="2012-12-02" status="draft"/>
+ <revision pkgversion="3.6.0" version="0.1" date="2012-12-10" status="draft"/>
<link type="guide" xref="index" group="login" />
<credit type="author copyright">
@@ -10,33 +10,41 @@
<email>amany elguindy gmail com</email>
<years>2012</years>
</credit>
+ <credit type="editor">
+ <name>Ekaterina Gerasimvoa</name>
+ <email>kittykat3756 gmail com</email>
+ <years>2012</years>
+ </credit>
<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
<desc>Populate the keyboard layout chooser on the login screen.</desc>
</info>
- <title>Add multiple keyboard layouts from the login screen.</title>
+ <title>Multiple keyboard layouts on the login screen</title>
<comment>
<cite date="2012-12-02" href="mailto:amany elguindy gmail com">Amany El-Guindy</cite>
- <p>This assumes the reader knows how to edit files as root.
- The reader will be able to add a list of keyboard layouts to the login screen, so that
- usernames/passwords of different languages other than the default can be typed.</p>
+ <p>This assumes the reader knows how to edit files as root. The reader
+ will be able to add a list of keyboard layouts to the login screen, so that
+ usernames/passwords of different languages other than the default can be
+ typed.</p>
</comment>
+ <p>You can add alternative keyboard layouts for users to chose from on the
+ login screen. This can be helpful for users who normally use a different
+ keyboard layout from the default.</p>
+
<steps>
<item>
<p>Find the code of the desired languages layouts in
- <file>/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst</file>
- under the section named <code>! layout</code>.</p>
+ <file>/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst</file> under the section named
+ <code>! layout</code>.</p>
</item>
<item>
- <p>Add the layouts codes to <file>/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf</file>
- as the following:</p>
- <note style="notice">
- <p>Multiple layouts can be added as a comma separated list as the example below for English and French layouts.</p>
- </note>
+ <p>Add the layouts codes to
+ <file>/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf</file> in the following
+ way:</p>
<screen>
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
@@ -46,9 +54,13 @@
<input>Option "XkbLayout" "en,fr"</input>
EndSection
</screen>
+ <p>Multiple layouts can be added as a comma separated list, as shown in
+ the example for English and French layouts.</p>
</item>
<item>
- <p>Logout to find that the defined layouts are available on the top bar of the login screen.</p>
+ <p>Logout to find that the defined layouts are available on the top bar
+ of the login screen.</p>
</item>
</steps>
+
</page>
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