Re: BiCon issues

[أحمد المحمودي <aelmahmoudy at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

as-salamu alaykom,

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 02:49:23PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> Use left alt-shift, right alt-shift won't work (I have no idea why), I
> think BiCon is not maintained any more, looks like people are giving
> up with Arabic terminals.

  Neither left nor right alt-shift work !

> I think debian doesn't allow running "loadkeys" for normal users, look
> at bicon script, it'll give you an idea about what it is trying to do.
> I usually use my distro's admin tools to set and Arabic capable
> terminal font and keymap, then run bicon.bin directly.
I tried 'loadkeys /usr/share/bicon/keymaps/arabic.map.gz' I get the 
following:

Loading /usr/share/bicon/keymap/arabic.map.gz
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

It core dumped when I ran it as root too. Maybe that's why the alt-shift 
isn't working ?

> >   2. BiCon doesn't update the windowsize when gnome-terminal gets resized.
> Even in linux console, it assumes a fixed columns and rows number, I
> do use "resize" utility that comes with xterm as a workaround.
In linux virtual console, there's a window that is resized, but in 
xterms (like gnome-terminal?) the terminal window can be resized. And 
the 'resize' utility is not a practical solution, because what if I 
resize the terminal while some app. is running (like elinks), that 
means, I should close 'elinks', run resize, then run 'elinks' again.
Btw, 'resize' is not needed, I found this in my .bashrc which 
automatically updates LINES & COLUMNS values:

shopt -s checkwinsize

But again, if I in a bicon environment, I'll have to close the running 
app & open it again, so that the LINES & COLUMNS updated values have 
their effect.

> >   3. While typing arabic text, joining & RTL is not done. Please see
> >      typing_arabic.png which is a screenshot of what happens when I type
> >      arabic in a vim session (same thing happens in mutt and elinks).
> I failed to get vim to show Arabicx properly with any terminal exept
> mlterm, Arabic is missed in either BiCon or putty's terminal.
> >   6. When viewing an arabic webpage using 'elinks', the page is rendered in the
> >      opposite direction to that it should be, attached with this email is
> >      elinks.png, which resulted when I browsed to the website
> >      http://islammemo.cc. Note that the menu that starts with "أخبار
> >      اليوم" is on the left of the webpage, while if you browse that site
> >      using Firefox, you'll find that it is on the right of the webpage.
> >      Also please note that the terminal tab height became thicker
> >      compared to the other screenshots.
> I think this is more an elinks issue, try this in gnome-terminal without BiCon.

I didn't have these problems with 'acon'.

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