Re: [Kmfl-user] Mnemonic Keyboards

[Richard W. <ric...@nt...>]

On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 10:25:24 +0000
Richard Wordingham <ric...@nt...> wrote:

> I have seen suggestions that users edit the user IBus reɡistry in
> ~/.cache/ibus/bus to select the underlyinɡ XKB keyboard.  However,
> that has changed from a text to a binary file.

That does actually seem to work.  I changed 'us' to 'gb' usinɡ emacs as
a 'hex' editor.  To be precise:

Step 1: Examine the registry using a suitable command such as

ibus read-cache | grep -B3 -A10 XSAMPA

to see what text is associated with the XSAMPA keyboard

Step 2: Open ~/.cache/ibus/bus in emacs.

Step 3: Ensure lines are wrapped, e.g. by using the options menu.

Step 4: Find the string XSAMPA, e.g. by invoking incremental search by
ctrl-S.

Step 5: Find the 2-letter string "us" flanked by "^@".

Step 6: Replace it by "gb".

Step 7: Save the file (e.g. by ctrl-X ctrl-S).

Step 8: In a command window, issue the command "ibus-daemon -rxd" to
update IBus.

The edited cache survives at least logging out and logging in.

It's fairly straightforward to clone KMFL keyboards if one needs to
support different keyboard labellings.  One just copies the .kmn files.

Replacing this procedure by a sound process is an IBus issue.

Richard.