JL Feinstein's Yiddish keyboard layout for GNU/Linux (Version 1)
"What is this, another Yiddish keyboard layout?"
ייִדן אױ ייִדן, װיפֿיל קלאװיאטורן דאַרפֿן מיר?
Like a frozen forest bare of birds and leaves, Yiddish orthography on the internet has shed its defining hats, dots and strikes because of the lack of alternatives to Modern Hebrew layouts, for which all such things are superfluous. Not only that, but Hebrew's prioritization of different letters to Yiddish means that typing is so frustrating for many that they prefer typing in Latin characters than Hebrew. Transliteration hurts the language—it prevents the development of literacy, especially for those who come to the language as students rather than through birth.
This Yiddish keyboard hopes to address this by providing an intuitive and eventually standard Yiddish keyboard for all major OSs to ultimately, it is hoped, include as a vanilla feature.
This is a modified version of nevillepark's version, inspired by Feygl Infeld Glaser's Yiddish keyboard for Qtext and modified for compactness and to preserve standard punctuation from the US keyboard.
Installation
On the *buntus, at least:
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RECOMMENDED: Back up your /usr/share/X11/xkb directory, just in case you experience any problems after installation.
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Run
chmod +x install.shand./install.sh -
Open your keyboard layout dialogue. It might be in Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard layouts.
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Add a new layout (+) > search for Yiddish > choose the default layout.
Toggle between your keyboard layouts in the taskbar.