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| 4 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="soft-keyb-custom">
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| 5 | <title>Creating a Custom Keyboard Layout</title>
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <body>
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| 8 | <p>
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| 9 | You can use one of the supplied default keyboard layouts as the
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| 10 | starting point to create a custom keyboard layout.
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| 11 | </p>
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| 12 | <note>
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| 13 | <p>
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| 14 | To permananently save a custom keyboard layout, you must save
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| 15 | it to a file. Otherwise, any changes you make are discarded
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| 16 | when you close down the <b outputclass="bold">Soft
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| 17 | Keyboard</b> window.
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| 18 | </p>
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| 19 | <p>
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| 20 | Custom keyboard layouts that you save are stored as an XML
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| 21 | file on the host, in the <filepath>keyboardLayouts</filepath>
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| 22 | folder in the global configuration data directory. For
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| 23 | example, in
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| 24 | <filepath>$HOME/.config/VirtualBox/keyboardLayouts</filepath>
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| 25 | on a Linux host.
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| 26 | </p>
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| 27 | </note>
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| 28 | <ol>
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| 29 | <li>
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| 30 | <p>
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| 31 | Display the <b outputclass="bold">Layout List</b>.
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| 32 | </p>
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| 33 | <p>
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| 34 | Click the <b outputclass="bold">Layout List</b> icon
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| 35 | in the toolbar of the soft keyboard window.
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| 36 | </p>
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| 37 | </li>
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| 38 | <li>
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| 39 | <p>
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| 40 | Make a copy of an existing keyboard layout.
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| 41 | </p>
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| 42 | <p>
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| 43 | Highlight the required layout and click the
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| 44 | <b outputclass="bold">Copy the Selected Layout</b>
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| 45 | icon.
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| 46 | </p>
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| 47 | <p>
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| 48 | A new layout entry with a name suffix of
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| 49 | <codeph>-Copy</codeph> is created.
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| 50 | </p>
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| 51 | </li>
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| 52 | <li>
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| 53 | <p>
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| 54 | Edit the new keyboard layout.
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| 55 | </p>
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| 56 | <p>
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| 57 | Highlight the new layout in the <b outputclass="bold">Layout
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| 58 | List</b> and click the <b outputclass="bold">Edit the
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| 59 | Selected Layout</b> icon.
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| 60 | </p>
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| 61 | <p>
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| 62 | Enter a new name for the layout.
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| 63 | </p>
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| 64 | <p>
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| 65 | Edit keys in the new layout. Click on the key that you want
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| 66 | to edit and enter new key captions in the
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| 67 | <b outputclass="bold">Captions</b> fields.
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| 68 | </p>
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| 69 | <p>
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| 70 | The keyboard graphic is updated with the new captions.
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| 71 | </p>
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| 72 | </li>
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| 73 | <li>
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| 74 | <p>
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| 75 | (Optional) Save the layout to a file. This means that your
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| 76 | custom keyboard layout will be available for future use.
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| 77 | </p>
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| 78 | <p>
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| 79 | Highlight the new layout in the <b outputclass="bold">Layout
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| 80 | List</b> and click the <b outputclass="bold">Save the
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| 81 | Selected Layout into File</b> icon.
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| 82 | </p>
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| 83 | <p>
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| 84 | Any custom layouts that you create can later be removed from
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| 85 | the Layout List, by highlighting and clicking the
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| 86 | <b outputclass="bold">Delete the Selected Layout</b>
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| 87 | icon.
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| 88 | </p>
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| 89 | </li>
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| 90 | </ol>
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| 91 | </body>
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| 92 |
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| 93 | </topic>
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