Russian homophonic keyboards for GNU/Linux


Right-click to download a unicode keyboard map for Linux. This is a keyboard map I altered so that I could work with both Russian and English under a GNU/Linux console session in UTF8 mode. The letter positions follow the recommendations of the AATSEEL homophonic student keyboard. All other positions are as standard US keyboards. Of course, you also have to choose a font to work with. I recommend LatArCyrHeb-16.psf.

Right-click to download a KOI8-R keyboard map for Linux. This is a keyboard map I altered so that I could work with both Russian and English under a GNU/Linux console session with locale set to the KOI8-R code page. The letter positions follow the recommendations of the AATSEEL homophonic student keyboard. All other positions are as standard US keyboards.

Right-click to download a CP866 keyboard map for Linux. This is a keyboard map I altered so that I could work with both Russian and English under a GNU/Linux console session with locale set to code page 866. The letter positions follow the recommendations of the AATSEEL homophonic student keyboard. All other positions are as standard US keyboards.

Here's a homophonic KDE keyboard. The letter positions follow the recommendations of the AATSEEL homophonic student keyboard. All other positions are as standard US keyboards.

Here are instructions for installing a Russian keyboard for the ASUS Eee PC (mirror) series of computers running in Easy Mode (Xandros and IceWM), although I suspect they will also work when running in Advanced Mode, which uses KDE. These computers strike me as a rocking good deal. The mirrored link reproduces the part that most vital for getting Russian letters to work under IceWM instead of duplicating the whole forum discussion. Note that this is not my Russian for Gringos keyboard. The directories under etc/X11 for this computer don't match the GNU/Linux systems I've worked with before, so I don't see a way to make Russian for Gringos work under on it.