Type Gothic with a Gothic keyboard in Linux (type directly, no websites needed)

[roellingua@gmail.com [gothic-l]]

Hello Gothic group,
 

 I was encountering problems, because I couldn't find a way to type in Gothic letters with my Linux device. So I decided to build a Gothic keyboard myself and it fully functions! I will look if I can also develop keyboards for Windows and Mac, but that will be difficult with my Linux machine.
 

 I have included a file, this file, got is necessary, instead of adding a lot of files, I decided to add instructions with edits which you need to do. If you exactly do what the instructions say, you should be able to choose a Gothic keyboard in your ibus. You have to choose the Gothic keyboard among your keyboards, I haven't added countries yet, but I will try to edit my Gothic keyboard in such a way that you can also choose a Gothic keyboard in Italy and Spain.
 

 First you have to download ibus, once you have ibus, you can do the following:
 

 Go to this link to download got and put it in a folder which you can remember: 
 

 http://roel.tengudev.com/Neo%20Gothic/download_keyboard_layout.php http://roel.tengudev.com/Neo%20Gothic/download_keyboard_layout.php

 

 

 Now follow these instructions:
 

 1. Open a terminal window, log in as superuser. You can do this by typing:   su 

 Enter your password and you have privileges now.
 Type this command, [directory of downloaded file]:
 cp [directory of downloaded file]  /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/
 

 Now it's added to your keyboard layout files.
 

 3. keep your terminal window open and type:
 gedit /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.xml
 

 Search for </layout> and choose one, directly after this copy this text :
 

 <layout>
          <configItem>
            <name>got</name>
            <shortDescription>got</shortDescription>
            <description>Gothic</description>
 

          </configItem>
        </layout>

 

 Save it.
 

 4. type 
 gedit /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.lst
 

 Type search and look for German, use the space key and add this under German:
 

   got             Gothic
 

 Save it.
 

 5. type 
 gedit /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst
 

 Do exactly the same as in step 4.
 

 6. type
 gedit  /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.xml
 

 Do exactly the same as in step 3.
 

 7.type
 gedit /usr/share/ibus/component/simple.xml
 

 Search </engine> and directly after </engine> copy:
 

 <engine>
 <name>xkb:got::got</name>
 <language>got</language>
 <license>GPL</license>
 <author>Roel</author>
 <layout>got</layout>
 <longname>Gothic</longname>
 <description>Gothic</description>
                         <icon>ibus-keyboard</icon>
 <rank>99</rank>
 </engine>
 

 


 

 8. Now you should be able to fully use the Gothic keyboard.
 

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