Re: [developers] xkb keyboard layout vs. input methods im-chooser

["Muayyad AlSadi" <alsadi at gmail dot com>]

Thanks, it worked


On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug dot org> wrote:
> 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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