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9 <a href="http://homepage3.nifty.com/tsato/xvkbd/">xvkbd</a> is a piece
10 of software useful for keyboard-less computers such as PDA or
11 web-tablets. It includes layouts for some languages, but no Russian
12 among them. But xvkbd is highly customizable via X resources
15 So, I've written my own keyboard layout for xvkbd. Download <a
16 href="XVkbd-russian">XVkbd-russian</a> file and use it as described
20 It is recommended to turn on "Lock AltGr" menu option in xvkbd
21 (I've found no way to turn it on from resource file, but xvkbd would
22 remember your settings).
25 This file assumes that xvkbd is running with <b>ru_RU.KOI8-R</b> locale.
26 If you want to run it in different locale, just recode filename and fix
27 font charset in the first lines of file. <b>Note</b> version of xvkbd
28 provided in Debian stable (2.6) is not able to display Cyrillic key
29 lables correctly if they are UTF-8. So, don't run xvkbd in
30 <b>ru_RU.UTF-8</b> locale, even if rest of your X application use that
31 locale. This layout produce correct X keysyms, so cyrillic letters would
32 be entered properly even if xvkbd and application run in different