Re: gnome 2.0 and hebrew

["Sirotkin, Alexander" <demiurg ti com>]

Thanks ! It works now - but the right-alt thing is insane indeed.

BTW, do you have any idea why it works normally (without alt) 
in KDE ?

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Sirotkin, Alexander wrote:
>
> > Hebrew support in Gnome 2.0 (RH 8.0) seems to be broken.
> >
> > I added hebrew to the keyboard layout switcher it did
> > not work - not hebrew input, just english.
> >   
>
> "Hebrew" gives you the "Israely" keyboard, which is an English-Hebrew
> layout. By pressing the holding the right-alt key pressed the keyboard
> will emit Hebrew keys. You can pobably fine-tune the layout.
>
> XFree 4.3 gives the keyboard switchers better ontrol of the keyboard
> layout (in a sane manner).
>
> See also http://jem.ascender.com/eitan/ for detailed instructions


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