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also I chose alt+shift groups to change between arabic and english languages
but I couldn't use alt+shift to change layouts at all
I can just use mouse to change between them and also alt+ctrl+k
to change to arabic only
I didn't have this problem with dropline gnome I guess but now I use kde 3.5 and also I adjusted layout options in control center but it is not working .
so what can I do to fix that ?
2)
also some gtk applications use arabic (my local language ) in their buttons and I'd like to make it use just english (I've only kde installed and I don't have gnome ).
also some gtk applicaions (not all ) like xine have very small font in their options though I adjusted "gtk style and fonts " in control center .
Did you installed the language file for arabic ? if not do so, you need to enable arabic in the KDE CC in Regional & Accessibility go throw the stuff there.
I found it easier to add to the xorg.conf file setting for language switch, you can try it here example from my xorg.conf:
here's also what I found in the kde help center , but I don't know how to do this
Code:
In XFree86 prior to version 4.3.0 non-latin layouts mutually included latin group and this group was the default thus pressing Ctrl+Alt+k always yielded the right combination. From version 4.3.0 by default all layouts contain only one group thus non-latin layouts may not work here.
Possible solutions are:
add your layout to $nonlatin or $oldlayouts lists in /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86 or the location of the xkb rules on your computer.
Change the shortcut to something language neutral, e.g. Ctrl+Menu
Turn on the option to include the “us” group in your layout (effectively the same as solution 1).
To setting arabic, use this example in console: setxkbmap en_US (change en_US to the abreviation of your language).
Group switching does not work for me (and as I can see for a alot of people too).
actually man the problem is not this file or the other
the problem is that how to add layout (alt+shift) in this file and also how to make this file recognize shift-alt keys so I copied the section "
in this file hoping it will recognize those keys but it didn't
also the file "/etc/X11/xkdb/rules/xorg " has to be edited by uncomment the $nonltin and arabic in it and I have to add layout options for alt+shift keys in it but I don't know how
I tried many ways but it's all wrong
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