On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 09:06:10PM +0200, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 09:14:32AM +0200, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
> > > IME language information is a feature of the XKB extension, not of GNOME
> > > or KDE. You can configure XKB with standard X11R6 tools such as
> > > 'xsetxkb' (high-level configuration loader) and 'xkbcomp' (low-level
> > > compiler). You retrieve information from the XKB extension by linking
> > > with Xlib (not GNOME or KDE libs!).
> > 
> > What is the IME when I use the Pango hebrew keyboard on RH7.3 with no
> > window manager?
> 
> What's a "Pango hebrew keyboard"? How do you activate it? I just want
> to make sure I know what you refer to.

http://pango.org/hebrew.xkb ?

> 
> IIRC, Pango doesn't have any way to enter Hebrew text except by:
> 1. Loading a Hebrew keyboard mapping (via xkb or X core protocol
> facilities),

Or slightly less directly, using 'setxkbmap il' . 

>  
> > > >Remember that there are a several hundres folks out there at the Technion
> > > >who need Hebrew OpenOffice on their "stone age" X stations
> > > >
> > > And Hebrew University too :-)
> > > Hopefully those stations have the XKB extension. That's all they'd need.
> > 
> > They don't.

And nither does Xvnc. What about Xnest?

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