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 <khaledhosny at eglug dot org> 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
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