Re: Can't get BiCon to work !

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at cs dot toronto dot edu>]

Apparently your loadkeys command doesn't accept the -u option.
That's something you should report to your distribution.

behdad


On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Ahmed El-Mahmoudy wrote:

> as-salamu alaykom,
>
>  For years I've been trying to get BiCon to work , but it doesn't.
>  I use the virtual console in Mandriva 2006, I type : bicon sa
>  I get:
>
> [root at ants:~]$bicon sa
> Usage: loadkeys [option...] [mapfile...]
> valid options are:
>         -c --clearcompose clear kernel compose table
>         -d --default      load default keymap file
>         -m --mktable      output a "defkeymap.c" to stdout
>         -s --clearstrings clear kernel string table
>         -q --quiet        be silent
>         -v --verbose      report the changes
>         -v --verbose      report more changes
>         -h --help         display this help text and exit
>         -V --version      display version information and exit
> loadkeys: invalid option -- u
> Usage: loadkeys [option...] [mapfile...]
> valid options are:
>         -c --clearcompose clear kernel compose table
>         -d --default      load default keymap file
>         -m --mktable      output a "defkeymap.c" to stdout
>         -s --clearstrings clear kernel string table
>         -q --quiet        be silent
>         -v --verbose      report the changes
>         -v --verbose      report more changes
>         -h --help         display this help text and exit
>         -V --version      display version information and exit
> Warning: this is a shell wrapper; consider using consolechars(8)
> BiCon started
>
>
> Now when I start any app like mutt, vim, lynx, elinks, they only use the
> upper half of the screen, and I can't read any arabic text at all,
> meaning that it displays wierd characters (and sometimes ? characters
> with white background) not arabic.
> I tried changing LC_CTYPE & LANG variables to ar_SA.UTF-8 but still no
> use.
>
> Btw, when I exit bicon I get:
>
> exit
> BiCon done
> Warning: this is a shell wrapper; consider using consolechars(8)
> Keymap 0: Permission denied
> Keymap 1: Permission denied
> Keymap 2: Permission denied
> KDSKBENT: Operation not permitted
> loadkeys: could not deallocate keymap 3
>
> I've been acon user for years, and it still works fine with me till now.
> But I do want to try BiCon, I hope someone will help me.
>

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