How to test & contribute my kbd layout, in xkb, for Tamil?

[veerasami]

:
Thank you Cooper,

I've successfully copied the layout file to the symbols folder of xkb;
but the layout is not recognised by xkb, even after a restart.

Any other solution?

VR.
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PS: I'll try with wiki too.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM>
To: veerasami <v.ramasami at gmail.com>
Cc: xorg <xorg at lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: How to test & contribute my kbd layout, in xkb, for Tamil?
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:35:58 -0800

veerasami wrote:
>      I'm interested to contribute a keyboard map, in Unicode, for the
> Tamil
> language, called VUTAM Type_As_You_Write. 

X.Org no longer maintains keyboard maps, but relies on those provided by
our sister project xkeyboard-config:
	http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig

Their process for contributing keyboard maps is described at:
   http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig/Development

> 	I've made the above kbd layout for Tamil, called VUTAM. Is there a way
> to
> make xkb recognise it, so that it could be tested? (by copying it to
> some .xkb.symbols folder in my home folder, or something similar?).

Can't you just add it to the /usr/share/X11/xkb files?   (You'll need to
use root to do so.)