Re: how to configure widget direction

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir technion ac il>]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 05:08:51PM +0800, miaocheng wrote:
>      I use red hat linux 8.0, the version of XFree86 is 4.0.3 and  the
> desktop manager is Gnome.

Just a comment:

RH8 comes with XFree 4.2 , right?

>    Is there any configurable options in GTK+ that control direction of
> GTK+'s widget . After configuring it , I am able to make all widget's
> direction of application with GTK+  being RTL (right to left) .
>     Another question: In http://www.pango.org/gallery.shtml, The last
> paragraph tell me GTK+ has the ability to mirror an interface
> automatically. Children are inserted into containers in the opposite
> order from the way they are displayed for left-to-right languages. This
> can be done almost completely without assistance from the application
> programmer.
>      But I can't find the way to make interfaces mirrored . please tell
> me how to make widget mirrored or where I can find resourses that
> involve answers.

Set LC_MESSAGES to some Hebrew or Arabic locale. Any less worse
solution?

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