Thanks, it worked
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Khaled Hosny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 02:44:44AM +0300, Muayyad AlSadi wrote: >> good job, >> but I did not get it khalid >> is it for xkb or IM > > To be honest, I'm not sure how this "composite keys" feature work, > google didn't help. I discovered it by reading this post on gnome-i18n > list http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2008-June/msg00030.html. > >> >> after editing those files do I have to restart x, run some >> compile/cache command or what ever > > I did nothing other than restarting X. If you are using GTK+ app, make > sure you are using X input method (select it from the right click menu, > or set the GTK_IM_MODULE="xim" environment variable. > > Regards, > Khaled > >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Khaled Hosny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > It does work with mlterm too, the problem was in my configuration. >> > You will need to add 'GTK_IM_MODULE="xim"' to your ~/.xsessionrc or the >> > system wide file. >> > >> > On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 03:05:43PM +0300, Khaled Hosny wrote: >> >> I found a workaround using X composite keys, it might not be an optimum >> >> solution but it does work with GTK/QT apps at least (but not with mlterm). >> >> >> >> Add the following lines to "/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose": >> >> <UFEFB> : "لا" # LAM WITH ALEF >> >> <UFEF7> : "لأ" # LAM WITH ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE >> >> <UFEF9> : "لإ" # LAM WITH ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW >> >> <UFEF5> : "لآ" # LAM WITH ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE >> >> >> >> Then edit "/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ara" and look for the relevant >> >> lines, replace VoidSymbol in your file with the corresponding code >> >> point, so that it looks like: >> >> ... >> >> key <AD05> { [Arabic_feh, 0x100FEF9] }; >> >> ... >> >> key <AC05> { [Arabic_lam, 0x100FEF7] }; >> >> ... >> >> key <AB05> { [0x100FEFB, 0x100FEF5] }; >> >> >> >> Then you will need to tell GTK to use XIM: >> >> export GTK_IM_MODULE="xim" >> >> >> >> You might need this with QT too (worked without this on my system): >> >> export QT_IM_MODULE="xim" >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Khaled >> >> >> >> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:59:25PM +0300, Muayyad AlSadi wrote: >> >> > B and G are disabled in arabic keyboard layout >> >> > in the new ubuntu and fedora >> >> > >> >> > so does this also applies to input methods >> >> > >> >> > have't any one involved with input methods and arabic >> >> > >> >> > does they support لا >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> >> > Developer mailing list >> >> > [email protected] >> >> > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer >> >> -- >> >> Khaled Hosny >> >> Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team >> > >> > -- >> > Khaled Hosny >> > Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team >> > >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) >> > >> > iD8DBQFITWyvRoqITGOuyPIRAlnlAJ999tfc7MrZPjSvcOfFXzYGIcNJWgCdErOK >> > m2VnrLkbZDZbt0raygfPd2Y= >> > =bZS8 >> > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Developer mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Developer mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer > -- > Khaled Hosny > Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFIUSRbRoqITGOuyPIRAlxcAKCIUiDsHDyWmVvgHPNbeVW9l8tFKQCeLObz > rnG7HfPjEEdv1WasMVwhPag= > =k+ZV > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer > _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
