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Enabling Telugu in Gnome 3
Telugu Gnome 3 User Interface (UI)
To activate Telugu in gnome 3 in debian sid we need to follow these steps.
1. Enable Telugu language in locales. Login as root from the command prompt open a terminal and Edit the file /etc/locale.gen to remove the # at the line that says te_IN UTF-8 using nano. If you are not able to see the line then go to end of the file and add the same line.
$su Password: [give administrator password] #nano /etc/locale.gen After editing the file give these key combinations to save and exit from nano Ctrl+x It will ask you to save the file, press enter.
2. Now we need to generate Telugu files. Give this command to generate Telugu files. We have to give this command only once to generate the locales.
#locale-gen
3. Close the terminal, and select Telugu from system settings menu for that Goto top right corner and click the user name, you will get a menu in that click system settings. In the window double click the icon which says “Region and Language”. Now you should see Telugu as an option, select Telugu by clicking the option. Close the window, logout and login again to see telugu interface.
Telugu Keyboard Layouts Gnome 3
The default keyboard doesn't have all the keyboard layouts because of which we need to install another input framework called ibus.
Install/Configure ibus
Give the following command to install ibus as root.
#apt-get install ibus ibus-m17n [with out hash]
after installing the above packages run the command ibus from command prompt as a normal user. You will get the preferences window of ibus.
Go to the second tab called Input Method. You will find an empty list, click the list “Select an input method”. This list will show all the languages and various keyboard layouts that we want to add to the list. In our case we will go to Telugu and click rts and again click Add, This will add the keyboard layout that we want. We can select other keyboard layouts too in the same way.
ibus as the default framework
Open a text editor and add the following lines to the file /home/<user>/.config/autostart/ibus-daemon.desktop
[Desktop Entry] Type=Application Exec=ibus-daemon -d Hidden=false NoDisplay=false X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true Name[en_US]=iBus Name=iBus Comment[en_US]= Comment=
if the directory .config/autostart doesn't exist then create one and copy the file to that directory.
logout and login to get ibus framework as the default framework for all the applications under gnome 3.
to switch between English and the keyboard layout that you choose press “Ctrl+Space” or click the keyboard icon on the top right corner after the speaker icon and select the keyboard layout that you want.
