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Re: Bidi support for Linux



On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Oren Held wrote:

> Hello Hetz
> 
> [...]
> > * keyboard switching - it sounds trivial, but you'll be amazed how much it's
> > not. KDE got this weird combination of CTRL-ALT-K, while I didn't see
> > anything in GNOME about it. Also, You must make sure you have the hebrew map
> >in your XFree to support it, and support it correctly (there are 3 maps
> > around!). A small application which could dock inside both KDE-2, GNOME, and
> > Window Maker could help a lot.
> Two issues:
> 1. What are the '3 maps around' ? I know about two.. What's the third ?
> 2. About a window maker dockapp, there's already wmkeyboard. The older
> version had a 'bad' hebrew keymap (8 bit, as tzafrir says), which I've
> already fixed. Unfortunatly the author didn't release a new version yet
> (It has been a longtime since then), so he puts the new map on his site,
> although it doesn't really work well. I told him but he does nothing :).
> I'll try to fix it and make a package with the hebrew support inside in
> the next days.

Actually WindowMaker has some code for displaying a control of the
keyboard status, but it is currently only used for per-window keyboard
map.

Anybody wants to modify it to be a global keyboard modifier (optionally)?
Anybody wants to implement a similar feature in another window manager?

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir


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