Chris Bennett said: > Is setxkbmap ru going to do the trick or will I need to do something > else also or instead?
"setxkbmap ru" will set standard "Windows" Russian layout which is printed on keyboards in Russia. FYI there is a set of "phonetic" layouts that map Russian Cyrillic glyphs to similarly looking or sounding native keys. These are readily available for several layouts: $ sed -En '/Russian.+phonetic/s/.+: //p' /usr/X11R6/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst Russian (US, phonetic) Russian (Czech, phonetic) Russian (Germany, phonetic) Russian (Poland, phonetic Dvorak) Russian (phonetic) Russian (phonetic WinKeys) Russian (phonetic azerty) Russian (phonetic French) Russian (Sweden, phonetic) Russian (Sweden, phonetic, eliminate dead keys) I personally use Yugoslav keyboard with my custom layout based on standard Yugoslav Cyrillic rules. Having same keys for punctuation make typing in several languages much less painful. > Any advice on what to be sure to find or not find on a keyboard? All keyboards produced for Russia in last 15 to 20 years are identical in terms of layout. Be aware that some keyboards come with Russian glyphs as pre-applied labels. These don't last long. -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
