wine in ubu 8.10, not fully doing job with Vutam3.exe found at http://sarovar.org/projects/keytrans.

Hello,

I suggest you have a look at how to easily change your keyboard layouts with SCIM.

You can setup several keyboard layouts and change them with a keyboard shortcut. There should be a lot of tutorials about that on the wiki, see here for instance : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SCIM

I don't think your application would work into wine, anyways, as it tries to modify the way windows handles keyboard layouts, at best it will modify the wine layout, but not the ubuntu one.

Cordially, SD.

Perhaps trying the curent dev version of wine would help. it is available from their private PPA on winehq.org

update ur wine software from www.winehq.org

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 1:16 PM, V.Ramasami <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> New question #67123 on wine in ubuntu:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine/+question/67123
>
> I used to run Vutam3.exe in windows OS, as a keyboard driver, to type
> Unicode Tamil, since this has facilities to change the keyboard layout to
> any of the available 4 layouts and also to create our own, for any language,
> in Unicode BMP.
> Now that I've access to Ubuntu 8.10, Intrepid, I tried to use the same, via
> wine. While Vutam3.exe runs upto the GUI stage, the core job of keyboard
> input is not possible in gedit or the office suite, screem, kompozer,
> evolutionmail and the like. The layout change, layout off/on with Alt0 /
> Alt1 work OK.
>
>
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:
 I'm thankful to Robert Swain, Windows Fucker (!?!) and Steve Dodier for
their response.

 Since Ubuntu owners are against trying Dev versions of Wine, I propose
to try SCIM, suggested by SD.

 In fact, I'm aware of Assistive Technology's and SCIM's Keyboard
drivers with their layouts available for Ubuntu. Since I didn't know to
use my own favourite layout in them, I was taking recource to Wine.

 I know that to use our favourite font file, we can copy that file in a
subfolder by name .fonts in our home folder.

 I find that a similar facility may be available for layouts as well.
Here the requirements are:

 1. We should be able to create our own layout files, acceptable to the
keyboard driver.
 2. We should know where to keep them, to be recognised by the driver.

 If this option is simpler than the Wine's, I'll prefer it, since I've
created such layout files for Vutam3.exe, myself, in Unicode BMP.
Incidentally, these layouts can also be used by others, since these will
not tamper with system's default files.

 While passing, I may mention, one of Vutam3.exe's .map files, which is
my favourite, requires 3 baskets {Normal, any Shift & any (Ctrl+Alt)
combination, along with ligature features ( sequences and replacement
features)}

 Detailed instructions, with sample layout file(s) are welcome.

VR,
from S.India.
:

:
Thanks SD.

This is what I actually wanted!

Yours,
VR.
S.India.
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