Click on the + (plus sign) to add a Keyboard. Within the Keyboard window, click on the Layout tab. To enable the built-in keyboards in Ubuntu, for example, click on the System menu and then go to Preferences > Keyboard. These are sometime more convenient to use given that, unlike UIM and SCIM, you don't need to enable and configure an extra program in order to have access to alternate keyboard they are built directly into the x. More recent versions of X have built-in keyboards for Dzongkha and Tibetan. The package for Tibetan Machine Unicode in Debian and Ubuntu is called ttf-tmuni. Finally and most important, make sure to install a Tibetan Unicode Font (e.g., TibetanMachineUni). For word processing, install OpenOffice 2.x. The m17n package provides numerous international keyboards, including Wylie. For Wylie input, you'll need to install UIM or SCIM and their corresponding extensions that use the 'm17n' database and library (called uim-m17nlib and scim-m17n respectively).

Gnome and KDE both provide complete support for Tibetan Unicode. Finally, you may have files using non-Unicode Tibetan fonts and want them to convert them to Unicode. However, you may want to use a different front or input method in addition, keep in mind that not all software programs support Tibetan Unicode just because the operating system supports it. Unicode Tibetan is fully supported within Linux operating systems, with all recent distributions providing a font, keyboard, and systems support out of the box. THL Toolbox > Tibetan Scripts, Fonts & Related Issues > Using Tibetan in LinuxĬontributor(s) to this documentation: THL Staff, David Germano, Zach Rowinski.

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