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roblynn	2008-01-09 , 19:40
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Originally Posted by averyml

Um...roblynn...for those of us who are a little less advanced, would you mind going a bit more into detail on step 2?...I've decoded my vkb file and edited the resulting xml, but I'm not quite sure how to reencode it. I have the deb files, and I managed to use ar (something new to me) to extract files from one, but that's about as far as I can get...

Ok, to simplify, I extracted the necessary files into a tar archive, available here.

Download the file on the tablet and untar using

Code:

$ tar xzvf gen_vkb_arm.tar.gz

This will create a folder name gen_vkb_arm in which the files will be created. Simply copy/move your xml file into this folder, cd into it, and type:

Code:

$ cd gen_vkb_arm
$ sh gen_vkb.sh filename.xml

This will create a *.vkb in the current directory which you can the move/copy to /usr/share/keyboards. To have the updated config loaded into memory, you need to kill(1) the hildon-input-method process (the one with the largest process id):

Code:

$ ps -ef | grep input
1116 user     1448 SW< /usr/bin/hildon-input-method
1117 user    27780 SW< /usr/bin/hildon-input-method
$ kill 1117

Hope this helps,

Robert B.

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