as-salamu alaykom, On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 02:49:23PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote: > Use left alt-shift, right alt-shift won't work (I have no idea why), I > think BiCon is not maintained any more, looks like people are giving > up with Arabic terminals.
Neither left nor right alt-shift work ! > I think debian doesn't allow running "loadkeys" for normal users, look > at bicon script, it'll give you an idea about what it is trying to do. > I usually use my distro's admin tools to set and Arabic capable > terminal font and keymap, then run bicon.bin directly. I tried 'loadkeys /usr/share/bicon/keymaps/arabic.map.gz' I get the following: Loading /usr/share/bicon/keymap/arabic.map.gz Segmentation fault (core dumped) It core dumped when I ran it as root too. Maybe that's why the alt-shift isn't working ? > > 2. BiCon doesn't update the windowsize when gnome-terminal gets resized. > Even in linux console, it assumes a fixed columns and rows number, I > do use "resize" utility that comes with xterm as a workaround. In linux virtual console, there's a window that is resized, but in xterms (like gnome-terminal?) the terminal window can be resized. And the 'resize' utility is not a practical solution, because what if I resize the terminal while some app. is running (like elinks), that means, I should close 'elinks', run resize, then run 'elinks' again. Btw, 'resize' is not needed, I found this in my .bashrc which automatically updates LINES & COLUMNS values: shopt -s checkwinsize But again, if I in a bicon environment, I'll have to close the running app & open it again, so that the LINES & COLUMNS updated values have their effect. > > 3. While typing arabic text, joining & RTL is not done. Please see > > typing_arabic.png which is a screenshot of what happens when I type > > arabic in a vim session (same thing happens in mutt and elinks). > I failed to get vim to show Arabicx properly with any terminal exept > mlterm, Arabic is missed in either BiCon or putty's terminal. > > 6. When viewing an arabic webpage using 'elinks', the page is rendered in > > the > > opposite direction to that it should be, attached with this email is > > elinks.png, which resulted when I browsed to the website > > http://islammemo.cc. Note that the menu that starts with "أخبار > > اليوم" is on the left of the webpage, while if you browse that site > > using Firefox, you'll find that it is on the right of the webpage. > > Also please note that the terminal tab height became thicker > > compared to the other screenshots. > I think this is more an elinks issue, try this in gnome-terminal without > BiCon. I didn't have these problems with 'acon'. -- أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) Digital design engineer GPG KeyID: 0x9DCA0B27 (@ pgp.mit.edu) GPG Fingerprint: 087D 3767 8CAC 65B1 8F6C 156E D325 C3C8 9DCA 0B27 _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
