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Asked: 2018-03-03 18:49:23 +0800 CST

How do I set my keyboard layout to work like the Windows mnemonic Russian keyboard?

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This is the mnemonic Russian keyboard in Windows.

This

while this is the phonetic Russian layout in Ubuntu.

this

In Windows there are some Russian characters mapped in different keys and also:

From Wikipedia:

Windows 10 includes its own implementation of a mnemonic QWERTY-based input method for Russian, which does not fully rely on assigning a key to every Russian letter, but uses the sh, sc, ch, ya (ja), yu (ju), ye (je), yo (jo) combinations to input ш, щ, ч, я, ю, э and ё respectively.

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1 Answers

  1. One way to come close to the desired behavior is to

    1. Define a compose key
    2. Create the file ~/.XCompose
    3. Add the desired compose sequences to ~/.XCompose
    4. Relogin

    I tested it with a ~/.XCompose file with only this line:

    <Multi_key> <Cyrillic_es> <Cyrillic_ha> : "ш" Cyrillic_sha # CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHA

    When using the Russian (phonetic) keyboard layout it lets me do:

    Compose followed by С followed by Х -> ш

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