Re: arabic keyboard layout

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- heissam el-wardany <haytham at gmx dot net> wrote:
> i am an arabic-speaker on my way to swich to linux. i am coming from 
> the mac world, the arabic keyboard layout in mac is different than 
> microsoft layout. i need to stay with mac laout, not only because i am 
> used to this layout, but also it makes more sense than the microsoft 
> layout. for example in mac layout letter thal is next to his brother 
> dal, you don't have to press on shift every time you want comma or 
> point, all kind of hamza is acessabel by pressing shift...etc.
> one of the reason attracts me to linux is its ability to be costumized, 
> so i am wondering if there is a way to edit the arabic keyboard layout, 
> so that i can change the place of couple of letters to suit me.
> i would be glad to hear an answer.
> kol sana w'intom taybeen.

Heissam, sorry for the delay - I'm forwarding your question to Arabeyes'
"general" mailing-list [1].  Do please subscribe to get answers and/or
check the archives.  Meanwhile, you might want to start looking into
xmodmap as well the graphical xkeycaps [2] GUI.

[1] http://www.arabeyes.org/mailinglists.php
[2] http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps

Salam.

 - Nadim


		
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