On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Oren Held wrote: > Hi, > > First, as people already suggested me in the past, use xkb (an internal > part of XFree86) instead of xmodmap-based programs which change the > keyboard layout on higher level.. It works great. > There's nice information about it on iglu.org.il's faq.
I tried to use gnome "keyboard applet" with the "Israely (Xkb)" map. Sort-of works, but lacks options. I think I still recommend to configure Xkb manuallyand switching from the keyboard (e.g: right-alt temporarily, and both shoft permanently). The KDE3 applet is also quite unintuitive (although better than the gnome applet) > > About xchat- this is problematic indeed. Any gtk2 control (such as > GtkLabel, GtkEditable, etc..) implements bidi (prints text using pango > which supports utf and bidi in rtl languages..). [ snip ] On a related note: Any idea what happened to gnome-terminal? It won't take any shape paramaters (lost most of the xterm compatibility) or font parameters. I had zero success in persuading it to showing unicode chars: I was running in a a he_IL.UTF-8 locale, and still it instisted on using some 8bit display. It maybe some pango mis-configuration, though. I'll have to check that later (maybe pango simply doesn't hav better fonts configured. I now remembered I saw some warning about this...) -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
