Re: gnome 2.0 and hebrew

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir technion ac il>]

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Sirotkin, Alexander wrote:

> > 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/
> > <http://jem.ascender.com/eitan/>  for detailed instructions


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

Say, did you real the *whole* page?

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

Actually both the gnome applet and the kde applet and basically GUIs to an
server capability of layout switching. So whatever way you get to change
to a usable layout is fine.

The simplest way on a redhat or mandrake system would be to edit either
/etc/X11/Xkbmap or (if you're don't have root) $HOME/.Xkbmap , and put
there parameters to "setxkbmap" . e.g:

-option grp:switch,grp:shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll il

Or, for XFree 4.3:

-option grp:switch,grp:shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll us,il

Which will get you an Israeli keyboard with English/Hebrew layout (the
standard Israeli) and when you press both shifts you switch layout. The
scroll lock keyboard led indicates if you're in "Hebrew keyboard".

Could be improved, of course. But it works.

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Tzafrir Cohen
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