Ubuntu – How to use Amharic EZ+ keyboard layout in Ubuntu 14.04

14.04ibuskeyboardlanguage-support

How do I use the previously available Amharic EZ+ keyboard layout in Ubuntu 14.04? The default keyboard for Amharic lacks the vowels or I just can't find them here is the keyboard layout that I have right now.

enter image description here

You can see the vowels are missing. I've tried to set the Sera as my keyboard option but I can't seem to get it to work, here is what I see when I run the ibus-setup application.

enter image description here

Best Answer

I found the answer to this question from the GNU/Linux Ethiopia Google Mailing list. One of our members, Teferra, gave out the answer a while back. The key is to add Amharic (sera (m17n)) input source in Text Entry options. To do this follow the instructions below:

  1. First install the m17n package, sudo apt-get install ibus-m17n.
  2. Then open dash (Super), and type Text Entry and choose to open that application. You will see the following window popup. There are several things you can do on this window but for our purposes we will only need to add Amharic (sera (m17n)) input source.

enter image description here

  1. Add the Amharic (sera (m17n)) input source using the + button indicated there.

Once you've done that, the Amharic Keyboard would be available as usual.

enter image description here

Related Question