>>>>> "Tzafrir" == Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tzafrir> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 08:01:14AM +0300, Aharon
Tzafrir> Schkolnik wrote:
>> Under RH8 I had Hebrew working just fine on my machine. I was
>> using KDE's keyboard layout. I just upgraded to RH9 (with KDE
>> 3.1.2), and now it doesn't work.
>>
>> I discovered from
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kde-il/message/206 that the
>> keyboard configuration under RH9 "seems completely broken".
>>
>> So, I tried using the suggested Xkb workaround -
>>
>> /usr/X11R6/bin/setxkbmap -compat "group_led" -symbols \
>> "us(pc101)+il+group(alt_shift_toggle)+group(switch)"
Tzafrir> What X server do you use?
Do you mean XFree86-4.3.0-2 on my RH9 box ?
Tzafrir> Note: setxkbmap does not compile a keyboard map
Tzafrir> locally. It sends a keyboard map description to the
Tzafrir> server and the server will compile a keyboard map.
Tzafrir> Assuming that te X server is indeed the RH9, the above is
Tzafrir> broken:
Tzafrir> setxkbmap -option
Tzafrir> grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll,grp:switch \ -model
Tzafrir> pc101 us,il
Yeah, I thinks that's what's not working.
Tzafrir> (BW: don't you have a 104-keys keyboard? You should
Tzafrir> probably use '-model pc104'.)
Yeah, I changed it (of course, that didn't solve the problem ;-) )
>> That worked fine (I can switch back and forth between Hebrew
>> and English), except for the thing I need it for most:
>>
>> I need to run an application on a remote (VMS) machine,
>> displaying on my machine, which needs Hebrew input. I am unable
>> to get Hebrew input in the window from the remote machine. To
>> be completely clear: If I telnet to the remote machine, and
>> then create another window displayed on my machine, and then
>> switch to Hebrew, I get Hebrew in the telnet session, but no
>> Hebrew in the remotely displayed window.
Tzafrir> Are you "unable to type" or is it displayed incorrectly?
I get English instead of Hebrew - seems to be an input issue - not a
display issue.
>> This was working fine under RH8, and in fact if I use KDE's
>> broken keyboard utility under RH9 I do get Hebrew in the
>> remotely displayed window (just can't get back to English,
>> since it's broken).
Tzafrir> Can you type Hebrew in , say, evolution? (1.2, from your
Tzafrir> distro)
Tzafrir> or in any gtk 1.2 program?
Tzafrir> Or in xedit?
I can type Hebrew in emacs, konqueror.
Tzafrir> Maybe this is the ol locale problem
>> Is there some setxkbmap option I need to know about ? Is there
>> some logical explanation for what is going on ? Can anyone
>> help me ?
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