<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 10:05 PM, 74yrs old <<a href="mailto:withblessings@gmail.com" target="_blank">withblessings@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> In Ubuntu-8.04, I am using scim.- which is default of Ubuntu. Reg: "xkb":= I could not understand or have no idea - will you kindly explain in detail.  At present, for Kannada there is  no provision of phonetic.  Regards. </blockquote></div> 1) xkb a) Right click on the panel --> Add to Panel --> Keyboard Indicator b) Right click on the Keyboard Indicator --> Keyboard Preferences --> Layouts --> Add --> Choose "India" for Layouts field --> "Kannada" in the Variants field. This should be Kannada Inscript, I suppose. -- Regards, Sri Ramadoss M