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This is the mnemonic Russian keyboard in Windows.

This

while this is the phonetic Russian layout in Ubuntu.

this

In Windows there are some Russian characters mapped in different keys and also:

From Wikipedia:

Windows 10 includes its own implementation of a mnemonic QWERTY-based input method for Russian, which does not fully rely on assigning a key to every Russian letter, but uses the sh, sc, ch, ya (ja), yu (ju), ye (je), yo (jo) combinations to input ш, щ, ч, я, ю, э and ё respectively.

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  • That Windows behavior sounds like some kind of input method to me rather than a plain keyboard layout. Have you checked out the Russian input methods provided by the ibus-m17n package? – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Mar 03 '18 at 03:19
  • I was thinking that this could be achieved turning the ' s' and 'y' in dead keys, but I don't know how.

    I've checked the input methods in the ibus-m17n packet and there is a IM similar to what I want, but it is not similar enough to what I need.

     – Yo-3 Mar 04 '18 at 21:33
  • Welcome to AskUbuntu, you should better to explain in details, what you expected and what you are getting. e.g. ju type ж or je type я. But I prefer to type one key than two or more keys. – Sadaharu Wakisaka Apr 03 '22 at 03:00

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One way to come close to the desired behavior is to

  1. Define a compose key
  2. Create the file ~/.XCompose
  3. Add the desired compose sequences to ~/.XCompose
  4. Relogin

I tested it with a ~/.XCompose file with only this line:

<Multi_key> <Cyrillic_es> <Cyrillic_ha> : "ш" Cyrillic_sha # CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHA

When using the Russian (phonetic) keyboard layout it lets me do:

Compose followed by С followed by Х -> ш

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