[Fedora-trans-ar] Re: Are you ready?

[Maha Helwa]

Hi All,

Ahmad, How things going with you right now ?! did u pick-up a file to
work on or not yet!!

Well, just want to notify you and the rest, i'll work on the same two old files:
system-config-samba
system-config-securitylevel 

I didn't assign them to myself on fedora site yet, but just to let you know.
Ahamd are you recieving emails from the mailling list, Do i still need
to put ur email each time!!

Maha.


On 6/17/05, Maha Helwa <ms.helwa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/17/05, Ahmed Farrag <a.m.farrag at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The keyboard, i can't switch to Arabic, im using Fedora Core 3 (was the
> > latest distro until few days :D).
> > That taskbar icon that tells u what language u r writing with doesn't show
> > here and i don't know how to do this under Linux.
> > +
> > Many thanks Ms Maha :-)
> >
> 
> You have to do 2 steps in order to have something like in windows at
> its system trailer below:
> 
> 1. Configure your Keyboard preferences, in this step you will add
> Arabic layout to be one among the selected layouts on your system,
> each language has its own layout on the keyboard:
>   - go to: Applications > Preferences > Keyboard
>   - The window of keyboard preferences will appear, choose "Layouts" tab.
>   - Choose your keyboard model, for example if you didn't know it you
> can count the number of keys on your keyboard and choose something
> generic; "Generic 101-key".
>   - Add Arabic from the Available layout list to your selected layout list.
>   - Close the window.
> 
> 2. Keyboard Layouts Switcher, this will add an icon on your system
> toolbar, so whenever you click on you will keep switching among your
> layouts(languages).
>   - Right click on your system toolbar, and choose "Add to panel"
>   - A window of utilities will be displayed, select "Keyboard layout
> Switcher"or "Keyboard Indicator".
>   - You will find what you want that icon.
> Try to find a way to switch between arabic and english using
> hotkeys..i didn't try to search actually but if u try to work around
> you will find it.
> 
> That's it..
> 
> Tell me..Can you write arabic in kbabel or not ?! right now after that
> adjustement.
> 
> Maha.
>