Description

• A linux keyboard for typing pāli and sanskrit diactrics ( i.e ā ī ū ē ō ñ ṭ ḍ ṇ ḷ ḥ ś ṣ ṛ ṝ ṃ ŋ ṁ √ ) .
• Type diactrics with left alt key as modifier (ṅ = left alt + b, ñ = left alt + y, ŋ = left alt + <) .

Install on X11 (will be overwritten if you upgrade system)

• Install as a alternative layout of us ( easiest ).

  1.sudo mv /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us.backup .
  2.sudo mv us-pali /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us .
  3. reboot .

• Install as a optional layout .

  1.sudo mv us-pali /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/pi .
  2.under /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules, add layout item to evdev.xml and base.xml's tag.

    <layout>
      <configItem>
        <name>pi</name>
        <shortDescription>us-pali</shortDescription>
        <description>us-pali</description>
        <languageList>
          <iso639Id>pi</iso639Id>
        </languageList>
      </configItem>
      <variantList/>
    </layout>
  </layoutList>
  

  3.reboot .
  4.open system settings > keyboard > layouts .
  5.click '+', search and active us-pali .

Install on sway

1. mkdir -p ~/.xkb/symbols
2. mv us-pali ~/.xkb/symbols .
3. add relevant snippet in the sway config file .

input type:keyboard {
  xkb_layout us-pali
}

4. reboot .

Config

• Instead of left alt key, you can set right alt key as the modifier by replace lalt_switch with ralt_switch in us-pali .