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How to type letters for non Latin alphabets?

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How to type letters for non Latin based alphabets?

Russian keyboards have a key that works like a caps-lock but instead of switching between small-case and upper-case, it switches between Cyrillic and Latin.

I'll bet that there are similar ways for Hebrew, or Arabic, but how to do it on a keyboard that is (only) Latin-based?

Would need some helping software in between.

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I would look into Keyman, especially if you have expansive or niche language needs.

It's a FOSS project started in 1993, and supports 2500+ languages on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android. There's also a browser version.

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From the launcher, enter: Keyman keyboards (4 comments)
From the launcher, enter: Keyman keyboards
watchmaker‭ wrote 11 months ago
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The site says: "From the launcher, enter: Keyman keyboards"

What launcher? Entering "keyman" or "Keyman" into bash does not find a command.

Michael‭ wrote 11 months ago
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I'm assuming this is the menu you get with the Windows (or "Meta") key on several DEs. Or Alt-F2 on KDE.

watchmaker‭ wrote 11 months ago · edited 11 months ago
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The "Windows" key shows me the currently active applications. "Meta" does not do anything on it's own.

On Ubuntu clicking the sidebar Icon that shows available applications and searching for "keyman" looks like the way to go.

Trying now, hoping not to wreck my keyboard ;-) .

Installed Hebrew/Greek without error messages, now looking how to uses it.

There is now an app called "Onboard" that shows me my keyboard, and there is nothing Hebrew or Greek, and I can't see how to switch. The documentation at https://keyman.com/linux/ is poor, or at least I can't find any hint on how to proceed.

Thanks!

watchmaker‭ wrote 11 months ago
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Some progress: (on ubuntu) on the right upper edge I can see a display indicating what keyboard/language is on. The "onboard" visual keymap does, counterintuitively, not act as a keyboard, clicking on the keys doesn't do anything, but only shows what would happen if I hit those keys when the appropriate language was chosen.

Alas, when trying this for an xterminal, it crashed, shortly after. Not sure is it was a coincident or not.

Anyone out there really using "keyman"?