Re: Akka one more time

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Mohammad Saleh <salemoh fastmail.fm> wrote:
> I got Akka installed and I can use F10, F11, F12 but when I want to type
> Arabic after pressing F11 I can only do that if I press the letter 'O'
> on the keyboard, then a colon appears and I can start typing Arabic, and
> the Arabic text appears after the colon. Is that expected behavior?

Doesn't sound like its expected, but then again I'm not an Akka user.
Samy/Elzubeir, could you guys comment ?

> I've installed mlterm on my machine and went to the location on arabeyes
> to download the fonts for X11 but the tar files of the fonts on the
> arabeyes sourceforge has the extension bz2 how can I get them installed
> (I have both redhat and debian)

That extension along with .zip and/or .gz are noting that the file is
compressed.  You'll need to uncompress them after you download them to
your machine.  There is plenty of info on how to do this easy step on
the internet (google is your friend :-), here's one that spells it out,

  http://www.ctssn.com/linux/lesson8.html

NOTE: this is _not_ specific to any distro - these are basic file management
      issues that are inherit to all linux/unix flavors out there.

Salam.

 - Nadim


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