Installing PCQLinux 2004

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Saturday, February 28, 2004

Indian languages

The most popular Indian Linux version now has lots of localization for Indian users. In PCQLinux 2004 you can use your Gnome in four different Indian languages. These are Hindi, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu. To set these up just click on "Language" in the login screen. A drop down menu will open. Now select the language you want to use and click on OK. Now log in to your Gnome desktop and you will find Gnome speaking your mother tongue. 

Not only this, PCQLinux 2004 supports eight different keymaps, which means you can enter text in these languages. To set up these keymaps, right-click on the Gnome panel and select Add to panel>Utility> Keyboard Layout Switcher. Now an icon will get added to your Gnome panel. Right-click on the icon and select preferences. A new window will open, select the language which you want (namely: Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Malayalam, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu). You can also set the default language for your machine from this applet. From now onwards, clicking on the icon will change the keymap setting of Gnome according to the list which you have added.

As yet, this localization is only with Gnome and not with KDE.

Anindya Roy

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