Re: python pygame keyboard input

2016-02-16 Thread Shlomo Solomon
ehaviour with alphabetic characters. > > > > 4 - I'm not sure what you mean by "a virtual console away from xkb > > and ...". The pygame module won't run in a non-graphic environment. > So in that case what about a clean user that doesn't have mul

Re: python pygame keyboard input

2016-02-16 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
have the same strange > behaviour with alphabetic characters. > > 4 - I'm not sure what you mean by "a virtual console away from xkb > and ...". The pygame module won't run in a non-graphic environment. So in that case what about a clean user that doesn't have mu

Re: python pygame keyboard input

2016-02-16 Thread Shlomo Solomon
1 - On a virtual machine (Mageia 4) the program runs properly 2 - Python versions on Mageia and PI are 2.7.9 [GCC 4.9.2] 3 - I tried: LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 python tst.pyand LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8 python tst.py but still have the same strange behaviour with alphabetic characters. 4 - I'm not sure

Re: python pygame keyboard input

2016-02-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Shlomo! On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 1:06 AM, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > I'm having a problem getting text input with pygame. > Here's a simple program and the results I'm getting. Digits and special > keys work but I'm getting strange results for alphabet keys. > Any idea what my problem is? > > > i

Re: python pygame keyboard input

2016-02-14 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Did you try changing it? It is pretty clear from those local variables that you have a nice DE sitting on your mageia box customized for Hebrew/English use while the rPI is just a vanilla install (en_GB). Did you try running your python script on a virtual console away from xkb and all the other t

Re: python pygame keyboard input

2016-02-14 Thread Shlomo Solomon
In response to E.S. Rosenberg's post, here are the locale variables on my Mageia 5 and Raspberry PI. Although there are differences, I don't see the problem. The main difference is that Mageia is set to en_US.UTF-8 and the PI to en_GB.UTF-8. There are also differences in variables defining numeric

Re: python pygame keyboard input

2016-02-14 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
I think your question shouldn't be what distro but rather: - what version of python - what localization was set when running the program (LC_* env vars) 2016-02-14 11:17 GMT+02:00 Shlomo Solomon : > Meir - thanks. What distro are you running? > > I can now add that the problem exists on my Mageia

Re: python pygame keyboard input

2016-02-14 Thread Shlomo Solomon
Meir - thanks. What distro are you running? I can now add that the problem exists on my Mageia 5 and Mageia 4 boxes. But on a Raspberry PI, the program does run as expected. I'd appreciate if someone could test this on Mageia and let me know if this is a Mageia problem, or maybe something wrong

Re: python pygame keyboard input

2016-02-13 Thread Meir Michanie
It works for me. python pykey.py 113 - q 119 - w 101 - e 114 - r 116 - t 121 - y 116 - t 306 - left ctrl 99 - c On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 at 01:07 Shlomo Solomon wrote: > I'm having a problem getting text input with pygame. > Here's a simple program and the results I'm getting. Digits and special > ke

python pygame keyboard input

2016-02-13 Thread Shlomo Solomon
I'm having a problem getting text input with pygame. Here's a simple program and the results I'm getting. Digits and special keys work but I'm getting strange results for alphabet keys. Any idea what my problem is? import pygame pygame.init() pygame.display.set_mode((100, 100)) while True:

Hebrew keyboard cups?

2015-04-09 Thread Amos Shapira
Not specifically Linux related but I hope members here can help me with "antique" hardware question. I just ordered a couple of MS ergonomic keyboards like this: http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-au/p/natural-ergonomic-keyboard-4000 and now I'm looking to make them Hebrew frie

Android external keyboard HEBREW??

2014-03-12 Thread geoffrey mendelson
My son has a cheap Chinese android tablet. It has a regular USB port on it, no bluetooth. We plug a keyboard in and it works. BUT it only works in English. Is there a way to get it into Hebrew mode? If not, does anyone know of a cheap tablet with Hebrew external keyboard support? TIA

Re: power failure - no keyboard in grub menu

2013-04-24 Thread Gabor Szabo
Thanks for all the responses. In the BIOS in the "Integrted Peripherials" menu I found an entry called "USB Keyboard function" which was "Disabled". I enabled it and rebooted. This did the trick and now I am a happy user again :) I have no idea if that was enable

Re: power failure - no keyboard in grub menu

2013-04-24 Thread Amichai Rotman
Another trick: 1. Turn off the computer. 2. Disconnect the power cable. 3. Press the power button a few times to discharge any built up electricity. 4. Disconnect the keyboard. 5. Connect the power cable. 6. Turn on the PC and wait until it passes the BIOS screens and into

Re: power failure - no keyboard in grub menu

2013-04-24 Thread Omer Zak
Missing information/Things to try: - How is the keyboard connected to the PC - USB, legacy, builtin(as in a laptop)? - If it is a laptop, did you try to connect another keyboard via USB? - What happens when you try to boot from a LiveCD or DiskOnKey? (Note to myself: is it possible to boot a

Re: power failure - no keyboard in grub menu

2013-04-24 Thread shimi
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: > hi > > after a power failure when I try to boot my Ubuntu 12.04 machine it > displays the Grub menu but it > does not react to any keyboard combination I tried. > > > If I press Del earlier, it does get in the BIOS a

power failure - no keyboard in grub menu

2013-04-24 Thread Gabor Szabo
hi after a power failure when I try to boot my Ubuntu 12.04 machine it displays the Grub menu but it does not react to any keyboard combination I tried. If I press Del earlier, it does get in the BIOS and there I can use the keyboard, so it does not seem to be a hardware issue, but in the GRUB

Re: Possible Solution for Frequent Keyboard Hangups in KDE.

2012-09-16 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
seconds, and see if you > really don't have this bug, No, thanks, not before I actually find this xkbset thingy: "yum whatprovides */xkbset" returns no matches. > or you were just lucky enough never to press the shift key for so > long. Possibly. Stories abound of fun

Re: Possible Solution for Frequent Keyboard Hangups in KDE.

2012-09-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012, Baruch Siach wrote about "Re: Possible Solution for Frequent Keyboard Hangups in KDE.": > > Continuing the investigation, you'll discover that when X is in a new > > and little-known state called "AccessX", it enables the dreaded > &g

Re: Possible Solution for Frequent Keyboard Hangups in KDE.

2012-09-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about "Re: Possible Solution for Frequent Keyboard Hangups in KDE.": > I have never experienced this bug (on Fedora or RHEL), probably for > one of two reasons: > > 1) I don't enable - or install - the disabilities-related

Re: Possible Solution for Frequent Keyboard Hangups in KDE.

2012-09-16 Thread Baruch Siach
Hi Nadav, On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 09:14:00AM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012, Shlomi Fish wrote about "Possible Solution for Frequent > Keyboard Hangups in KDE.": > > Hi all, > > > > in case you are experiencing cases where the keyboard i

Re: Possible Solution for Frequent Keyboard Hangups in KDE.

2012-09-16 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote: > But various buggy Gnome and KDE crap do. On my Fedora, it is GDM (the Gnome > login screen - which is used even if you end up running KDE) which turns it > on (apparently to help people with disabilities to log in) but forgets to > turn it ba

Re: Possible Solution for Frequent Keyboard Hangups in KDE.

2012-09-15 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012, Shlomi Fish wrote about "Possible Solution for Frequent Keyboard Hangups in KDE.": > Hi all, > > in case you are experiencing cases where the keyboard in KDE become > unresponsive sometimes, then I have discovered a way to predictably > reproduce t

Possible Solution for Frequent Keyboard Hangups in KDE.

2012-09-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all, in case you are experiencing cases where the keyboard in KDE become unresponsive sometimes, then I have discovered a way to predictably reproduce this hang-up, and to avoid it. See this KDE bug here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=306626 The solution I found was to move away

[HAIFUX LECTURE] Maqaf Hataf Patakh - The new standard Hebrew keyboard layout by Amir E. Aharoni

2012-01-07 Thread Eli Billauer
On Monday, January 9th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Amir E. Aharoni talk about Maqaf Hataf Patakh - The new standard Hebrew keyboard layout Abstract In the last two years a committee in the Standards Institution of Israel worked, on my initiative and with my active

Swapping B and Caps_Lock in a new keyboard layout

2011-05-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
Hi all, I'm trying to create a new ergonomic keyboard layout: http://dotancohen.com/eng/noah_ergonomic_keyboard_layout.html I'm getting stuck on moving the modifier keys and CapsLock. My current approach is simply to modify the standard US layout to swap CapsLock and B, like so: Firs

Changing non-printing keys in keyboard layout

2011-05-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
Hi all, I'm trying to write a new keyboard layout. I'm testing using Debian Squeeze and Kubuntu 11.04, both with KDE. It is important to solve this issue with a keyboard layout as opposed to playing with xmodmap or scancodes and keycodes because I need to leave the standard US English, H

Re: new SI1452 keyboard layout

2011-01-23 Thread Shachar Shemesh
MARK +hebrew_finalzade: RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK Which means I'll have to repeat my small quiestion from the beginning of this thread: anything better than this 'keys' shell script I wrote to show the keyboard layout? You missed all non-alphabetical keys mapping. These include Ge

Re: new SI1452 keyboard layout

2011-01-23 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Which means I'll have to repeat my small quiestion from the beginning of this thread: anything better than this 'keys' shell script I wrote to show the keyboard layout? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il |

Re: new SI1452 keyboard layout

2011-01-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 05:11, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Dotan, I'd ask you constructive questions, but as you've obviously did not > read the comment thread on my blog (or you wouldn't say these incorrect > things), I can't. Please attempt at being informed before passing criticism. > > Also, when

Re: new SI1452 keyboard layout

2011-01-16 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 17/01/11 00:00, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 23:02, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Hi Shachar. I notice that the RLM and LRM are not implemented in the new keyboard layout. You might want to mention to the rest of the committee that there exist users who use the lyx layout

Re: new SI1452 keyboard layout

2011-01-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 23:02, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >> Hi Shachar. I notice that the RLM and LRM are not implemented in the >> new keyboard layout. You might want to mention to the rest of the >> committee that there exist users who use the lyx layout specifically >> f

Re: new SI1452 keyboard layout

2011-01-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
wrapping its head around a > > fundamental fact of the new keyboard standard. This is not an open source > > project. This is a committee. It is manned by people who are all with the > > best of intentions, and the discussion is surprisingly ego-free, and yet, > > this is still a c

Re: new SI1452 keyboard layout

2011-01-16 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 16/01/11 22:53, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Hi, If that key won't be included at all, I figure I won't go manually editing every system around. Had you read the comments on my blog, you would have known that this key will be included, as well as gershaim and the rest of them. We just didn't get ar

Re: new SI1452 keyboard layout

2011-01-16 Thread Shachar Shemesh
what you said is not redundant to what was already said, leave a comment with it. Hi Shachar. I notice that the RLM and LRM are not implemented in the new keyboard layout. You might want to mention to the rest of the committee that there exist users who use the lyx layout specifically for

Re: new SI1452 keyboard layout

2011-01-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi, On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:18:50PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Thankfully, Hamakor has a couple of representatives at the committee, > and one of them (yours truly) did his best to make the process as > transparent as possible. The best way to get your feedback considered by > the c

Re: new SI1452 keyboard layout

2011-01-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 22:18, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Hi Tzafrir, as well as anyone else who want to pursue this development > independently. > > I think the community is having a hard time wrapping its head around a > fundamental fact of the new keyboard standard. This is not

Re: new SI1452 keyboard layout

2011-01-16 Thread Omer Zak
d, etc.) were approved by a committee without having been actually implemented and put to trial by fire. In the case of the new SI1452 keyboard layout standard, it means that it should be easy for people to try various keyboard layouts and see which feels right to them and why. It should be easy f

Re: new SI1452 keyboard layout

2011-01-16 Thread Shachar Shemesh
community is having a hard time wrapping its head around a fundamental fact of the new keyboard standard. This is not an open source project. This is a committee. It is manned by people who are all with the best of intentions, and the discussion is surprisingly ego-free, and yet, this is still a

new SI1452 keyboard layout

2011-01-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi Long ago there was a thread on the ivrix-discuss mailing list with the title "SI1452 insanity"[1]. I've been a long time proponent of the "lyx" variant of the Israely X11 keyboard layout rather than the standard one (Standard of Israel no. 1452). Luckily in thr last

Re: Apple Slim USB Keyboard

2010-10-13 Thread Michael Tewner
Just to clear up the comment - I have both the large keyboard (connected to Linux) and a small keyboard (BlueTooth, connected to a mac). -MIke On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Michael Tewner wrote: > I have it set up. > Works great - Ubuntu got the volume keys set up automatically

Re: Apple Slim USB Keyboard

2010-10-13 Thread Michael Tewner
I have it set up. Works great - Ubuntu got the volume keys set up automatically (after selecting the keyboard type). On the one I got (iDigital with the number pad), I often accidentally hit the "eject" button, so I disabled it in Linux. I seem to remember a problem with using the fun

Re: Apple Slim USB Keyboard

2010-10-13 Thread Steve G.
pple brushed aluminum keyboard (I am > thinking the USB one, not the bluetooth) to a linux box? > > I tried it at an apple store, and liked the feel of the keys, but a search > suggests the issue is iffy. > > Thanks, > > Z. &

Re: Apple Slim USB Keyboard

2010-10-13 Thread Marc Volovic
I have one - you are welcome to try. M On Oct 14, 2010, at 3:56 AM, Steve G. wrote: > Has anyone successfully connected the Apple brushed aluminum keyboard (I am > thinking the USB one, not the bluetooth) to a linux box? > > I tried it at an apple store, and liked the feel of the

Apple Slim USB Keyboard

2010-10-13 Thread Steve G.
Has anyone successfully connected the Apple brushed aluminum keyboard (I am thinking the USB one, not the bluetooth) to a linux box? I tried it at an apple store, and liked the feel of the keys, but a search suggests the issue is iffy. Thanks, Z. -- Check out my web site - www.words2u.net

Keyboard needs to be reconnected after Linux boot

2010-10-05 Thread Dov Grobgeld
I have a new problem that is annoying though I can live with it. On my desktop, within a second after choosing my Fedora Linux kernel within Grub and booting into Linux my keyboard disconnects and e.g. the NumLock key no longer turns on the NumLock LED. The solution is to disconnect and reconnect

keyboard shortcuts doesn't work when context menu is shown

2010-08-04 Thread Elazar Leibovich
Whenever a context menu is shown (alt+F in gedit, alt+F1 in gnome, right click on anything), no keyboard shortcuts works (alt tab to switch between windows, Ctrl+Alt+right to switch workspace). I didn't find the specific bug. Anyone knows a reference or a workaround? T

Re: X Configuration for English/LyX keyboard + Compose Key

2010-07-02 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Saturday 26 Jun 2010 07:59:40 Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Tzafrir, > > thanks for your help. See below for my response. > Hi all, can anyone shed more light onto this problem? Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish

Re: X Configuration for English/LyX keyboard + Compose Key

2010-06-25 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Tzafrir, thanks for your help. See below for my response. On Saturday 26 Jun 2010 05:07:24 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 06:17:50PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Hi all! > > > How do I set the X configuration in the following script: > -option does not set options. It adds op

Re: X Configuration for English/LyX keyboard + Compose Key

2010-06-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 06:17:50PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi all! > > How do I set the X configuration in the following script: -option does not set options. It adds options. To reset the options: -options '' Thus: > > [code] > #!/bin/sh > > setxkbmap \ -option '' \ > -option

X Configuration for English/LyX keyboard + Compose Key

2010-06-25 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! How do I set the X configuration in the following script: [code] #!/bin/sh setxkbmap \ -option "compose:ralt,grp:switch,grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll" \ -variant ",lyx" \ 'us,il' [/code] Into Xkb map in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. So far I have this, but it doesn't handle th

Re: Listening to Keyboard (was: Re: Wireless connection to a remote station)

2010-06-06 Thread Amos Shapira
On 6 June 2010 22:27, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: > Hi Amos, > The paper presented at that Haifux talk is available at: >  http://www.usenix.org/events/sec09/tech/full_papers/vuagnoux.pdf > The authors tested several scenarios (secluded room, room with many > computers, flat and even listening f

Re: Listening to Keyboard (was: Re: Wireless connection to a remote station)

2010-06-06 Thread Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Amos Shapira wrote: > > Anyway, I'm sure that some people on this list can provide several ways > > to track my data, including listening to my keyboard :) > > Speaking of which - I was wondering about this when I saw the lecture > anno

Listening to Keyboard (was: Re: Wireless connection to a remote station)

2010-06-05 Thread Amos Shapira
> Anyway, I'm sure that some people on this list can provide several ways > to track my data, including listening to my keyboard :) Speaking of which - I was wondering about this when I saw the lecture announcement (couldn't make it - it was too short a notice for me to catch a

XFCE keyboard leds indicator panel plugin

2009-12-26 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi all, I'm looking for a plugin to the XFCE panel to show the state of the keyboard leds. I have mythbuntu on my living room computer with wireless keyboard (and no leds, as most wireless keyboards are). I have not found any plugin for XFCE for showing the state, however. Anyone kn

Re: [SOLVED] Dual screens / keyboard layout

2009-07-10 Thread Aviram Jenik
talking about how connecting a USB keyboard to a laptop (while gnome is running) deletes the keyboard layout, and for example loses the Hebrew-switching hotkeys. It's apparently a known bug in xorg: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-evdev/+bug/376592 &g

Re: [SOLVED] Dual screens / keyboard layout

2009-07-10 Thread Arie Skliarouk
:48 Aviram Jenik wrote: > > > > > > Second question: When I connect a USB keyboard it does not have the > correct > > layout. I need to go to the keyboard layout and hit 'apply' for it to > > enforce the layout on the USB keyboard as well. Since xorg.conf i

[SOLVED] Dual screens / keyboard layout

2009-07-09 Thread Aviram Jenik
On Wednesday 20 May 2009 15:33:48 Aviram Jenik wrote: > > > Second question: When I connect a USB keyboard it does not have the correct > layout. I need to go to the keyboard layout and hit 'apply' for it to > enforce the layout on the USB keyboard as wel

Re: [Off topic] Engraving Hebrew on US laptop keyboard

2009-06-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 14:31:45 +0300 Dotan Cohen wrote: > > 1. Engraving Hebrew on keyboard > > I actually just painted the keyboard letter keys black, so there are > no English or Hebrew letters! Now my laptop is less usable to thieves, > and my typing speed has increased dram

Re: [Off topic] Engraving Hebrew on US laptop keyboard

2009-06-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 05:44:33 +0300 Alexander Indenbaum wrote: > Hello, > > This is off topic, still probably crowd here has relevant experience, so ... > > I'm considering bringing Sony laptop from US. My main concerns are: > 1. Engraving Hebrew on keyboard Asked at

Re: [Off topic] Engraving Hebrew on US laptop keyboard

2009-06-02 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Been there several times. > Good service. > Make sure the order specifies: >  Size of engraving, font, color. >  They even have sample layouts in several languages. > Thanks, Moish. I just asked how much it would cost to change the Windows key into a Tux key. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-wha

Re: [Off topic] Engraving Hebrew on US laptop keyboard

2009-06-02 Thread Moish
http://www.pcgraph.co.il/ Been there several times. Good service. Make sure the order specifies: Size of engraving, font, color. They even have sample layouts in several languages. Moish ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mai

Re: [Off topic] Engraving Hebrew on US laptop keyboard

2009-06-02 Thread Dotan Cohen
> So far, about 6 months of not very heavy use and the stickers are as > good as new - you can hardly tell that there are stickers on the keys. > I think they were bought at Bug but I don't have a package for > reference. > Bah, Bug is an expensive Windows shop. If someone outside Israel needs the

Re: [Off topic] Engraving Hebrew on US laptop keyboard

2009-06-02 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/6/2 Alexander Indenbaum > > Hello, > > This is off topic, still probably crowd here has relevant experience, so ... > > I'm considering bringing Sony laptop from US. My main concerns are: > 1. Engraving Hebrew on keyboard I got sets of stickers sent to me from Isr

Re: [Off topic] Engraving Hebrew on US laptop keyboard

2009-06-02 Thread Dotan Cohen
> 1. Engraving Hebrew on keyboard I actually just painted the keyboard letter keys black, so there are no English or Hebrew letters! Now my laptop is less usable to thieves, and my typing speed has increased dramatically. > 2. Service/warranty > Dell told me that I would have no warra

Re: [Off topic] Engraving Hebrew on US laptop keyboard

2009-06-02 Thread Alex Shnitman
Kasir Graf (http://www.kasirgraf.co.il/), in southern Tel Aviv (near the central bus station) -- 100 NIS, 20 minutes and you have a Hebrew keyboard. I was very satisfied. There's also another company in Holon, can't remember their name but Google will find it quickly.

Re: [Off topic] Engraving Hebrew on US laptop keyboard

2009-06-02 Thread Shahar Dag
AM Subject: Re: [Off topic] Engraving Hebrew on US laptop keyboard Does anyone has an experience servicing laptops purchased in US in Israel (probably by ישפאר)? I considered it a year and a half ago, so I just called the Israel representatives of all laptop manufacturers I could think of. Son

Re: [Off topic] Engraving Hebrew on US laptop keyboard

2009-06-02 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Alexander Indenbaum wrote: Hello, This is off topic, still probably crowd here has relevant experience, so ... I'm considering bringing Sony laptop from US. My main concerns are: 1. Engraving Hebrew on keyboard 2. Service/warranty Does anyone has a pointer or recommendation about (1)

Re: [Off topic] Engraving Hebrew on US laptop keyboard

2009-06-02 Thread sara fink
Regarding engraving on the keyboard hebrew, I know there is someone in tel aviv which does it for around 100 nis. I didn't do it, but if you want I know someone who did and I can ask the phone number. As for the warranty, sony indeed are nasty in this field. Try to ask them if you bring it

Re: [Off topic] Engraving Hebrew on US laptop keyboard

2009-06-02 Thread Boris shtrasman
Alexander Indenbaum wrote: > Hello, > > This is off topic, still probably crowd here has relevant experience, so ... > > I'm considering bringing Sony laptop from US. My main concerns are: > 1. Engraving Hebrew on keyboard > 2. Service/warranty > > Does anyone has a

Re: [Off topic] Engraving Hebrew on US laptop keyboard

2009-06-02 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 2, 2009, at 7:59 AM, Leonid Podolny wrote: Does anyone has an experience servicing laptops purchased in US in Israel (probably by ישפאר)? I considered it a year and a half ago, so I just called the Israel representatives of all laptop manufacturers I could think of. Sony were the only

Re: [Off topic] Engraving Hebrew on US laptop keyboard

2009-06-01 Thread Leonid Podolny
> Does anyone has an experience servicing laptops purchased in US in > Israel (probably by ישפאר)? I considered it a year and a half ago, so I just called the Israel representatives of all laptop manufacturers I could think of. Sony were the only ones that plainly said that I will not get any warr

[Off topic] Engraving Hebrew on US laptop keyboard

2009-06-01 Thread Alexander Indenbaum
Hello, This is off topic, still probably crowd here has relevant experience, so ... I'm considering bringing Sony laptop from US. My main concerns are: 1. Engraving Hebrew on keyboard 2. Service/warranty Does anyone has a pointer or recommendation about (1). How could provide such servi

Re: lyx Hebrew keyboard layout variant issue

2009-05-22 Thread Herouth Maoz
k for the comma on the bottom right row. In the context of English, I automatically type it where it belongs in the English keyboard. It's part of the training of the brain. Thus, it makes no sense to have shift-3 mapped to anything other than what it is on common Hebrew keyboards in a c

Re: Dual screens / keyboard layout

2009-05-21 Thread Aviram Jenik
On Thursday 21 May 2009 03:38:38 sara fink wrote: > Which graphic card you use for the 2nd monitor. I ask because there are > specific tools that deal with these resolutions for nvidia, ati etc. I have the tool - xrandr works perfectly. Also, ubuntu resizes the screen when the new monitor is plug

Re: lyx Hebrew keyboard layout variant issue

2009-05-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:28:03PM +0300, Herouth Maoz wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I recently upgraded the Linux version on my work machine, and I noticed > something odd about the Hebrew kxkb layout, which I use in the lyx > variant. There was no "=" key, and there were two "]" keys. The default

Re: lyx Hebrew keyboard layout variant issue

2009-05-21 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thursday 21 May 2009 14:20:48 Dotan Cohen wrote: > > So, does anybody know where I can get a fully-defined Hebrew layout for > > kxkb, in the lyx variant? If so, a hint on where to install it will also > > be appreciated. And finally, how does one convince all the distros to > > include a full l

Re: lyx Hebrew keyboard layout variant issue

2009-05-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
> So, does anybody know where I can get a fully-defined Hebrew layout for > kxkb, in the lyx variant? If so, a hint on where to install it will also be > appreciated. And finally, how does one convince all the distros to include a > full layout? It's strange that both Ubuntu and Mandriva have the s

Re: Dual screens / keyboard layout

2009-05-21 Thread sara fink
Which graphic card you use for the 2nd monitor. I ask because there are specific tools that deal with these resolutions for nvidia, ati etc. I couldn't find so far a script that runs when the 2nd screen is plugged. As far as I know, xorg.conf does this. My logic says that a fork should be created.

lyx Hebrew keyboard layout variant issue

2009-05-21 Thread Herouth Maoz
Hi everybody, I recently upgraded the Linux version on my work machine, and I noticed something odd about the Hebrew kxkb layout, which I use in the lyx variant. There was no "=" key, and there were two "]" keys. The default Hebrew layout had no such artifact. After comparing my KDE-based

Re: Dual screens / keyboard layout

2009-05-20 Thread Aviram Jenik
On Wednesday 20 May 2009 17:16:20 sara fink wrote: > > Now any clues on setting the right video resolution automagically? > > do you still want to work with xorg.conf or without? Neither; I want to find the script that runs when the 2nd screen is plugged in. Once that happens I'll run xrandr myse

Re: Dual screens / keyboard layout

2009-05-20 Thread sara fink
> > > > > Now any clues on setting the right video resolution automagically? do you still want to work with xorg.conf or without? > > > - Aviram > ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: Dual screens / keyboard layout

2009-05-20 Thread Aviram Jenik
On Wednesday 20 May 2009 16:06:08 sara fink wrote: > for keyboard layout, please take a look at this link: > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.5-upgrade-guide.x >ml > > part 2 configuring input. It should be the same for other distributions as > well. Be

Re: Dual screens / keyboard layout

2009-05-20 Thread sara fink
for keyboard layout, please take a look at this link: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.5-upgrade-guide.xml part 2 configuring input. It should be the same for other distributions as well. On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Aviram Jenik wrote: > To hijack the 

Dual screens / keyboard layout

2009-05-20 Thread Aviram Jenik
this hot-plug detection? Second question: When I connect a USB keyboard it does not have the correct layout. I need to go to the keyboard layout and hit 'apply' for it to enforce the layout on the USB keyboard as well. Since xorg.conf is now pase', does anyone know how to solve

Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout

2009-03-05 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 12:11:07PM +0200, Yuval Hager wrote: > I find the lyx variant to be most intuitive. As I don't have time to look for > the documentation when I need to add diacritics, it makes much sense for פתח > to be on פ, for קמץ to be on ק, for חיריק to be on ח, and so on. If I don't

Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout

2009-03-05 Thread Yuval Hager
On Thursday 05 March 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2009/3/5 Yuval Hager : > > On Thursday 05 March 2009, Baruch Siach wrote: > >> Hi Yonatan, > >> > >> On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:45:17AM +0200, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > >> > What is "sta

Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout

2009-03-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/3/5 Yuval Hager : > On Thursday 05 March 2009, Baruch Siach wrote: >> Hi Yonatan, >> >> On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:45:17AM +0200, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: >> > What is "standard Hebrew keyboard layout" (disregarding aleph-tav)? >> >> Ho

Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout

2009-03-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> Thanks, Baruch, but those alt- characters don't match _any_ of the >> layouts on my system! It seems to be closest to Biblical, but the RLM >> and LRM characters do not work. I have these available keyboard >> layouts: >> Default >> Basic >> Lyx &

Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout

2009-03-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
> After all these years SI1452 still amazes me. Who would want to replace the > Shift Numeral keys with nikud? In order to write "SHALOM!" (assuming that > capital characters are hebrew) you would then need to press [Language > shift][Shift][1][Language Shift] to get the final exclamation mark. Doe

Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout

2009-03-05 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Btw, the drawing of the keyboard does not show the following additional mappings that I use (don't remember if they are part of the original .xkbmap): Hebrew shift Z: RLM Hebrew shift X: LRM (Mnemonic: RLM is in the left side as the writing direction is to the right. LRM is on the right si

Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout

2009-03-05 Thread Yuval Hager
On Thursday 05 March 2009, Baruch Siach wrote: > Hi Yonatan, > > On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:45:17AM +0200, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > > What is "standard Hebrew keyboard layout" (disregarding aleph-tav)? > > How about SI1452? > > http://www.qsm.co.il/NewHebr

Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout

2009-03-05 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 11:24:40 +0200 From: Dotan Cohen To: Baruch Siach Cc: Jonathan Ben Avraham , linux-il. Subject: Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout How about SI1452? http://www.qsm.co.il/NewHebrew/Key1452e.htm Thanks, Baruch, but

Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout

2009-03-05 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
athan Ben Avraham Cc: Baruch Siach , linux-il. Subject: Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout After all these years SI1452 still amazes me. Who would want to replace the Shift Numeral keys with nikud? In order to write "SHALOM!" (assuming that capital characters are hebrew) you

Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout

2009-03-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
> How about SI1452? > > http://www.qsm.co.il/NewHebrew/Key1452e.htm Thanks, Baruch, but those alt- characters don't match _any_ of the layouts on my system! It seems to be closest to Biblical, but the RLM and LRM characters do not work. I have these available keyboard layouts: Def

Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout

2009-03-05 Thread Dov Grobgeld
ohen , linux-il. > > >> Subject: Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout >> >> Hi Yonatan, >> >> On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:45:17AM +0200, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: >> >>> What is "standard Hebrew keyboard layout" (disregarding aleph

Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout

2009-03-04 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Guess that answers the question about RLM/LRM. - yba On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Baruch Siach wrote: Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 09:04:16 +0200 From: Baruch Siach To: Jonathan Ben Avraham Cc: Dotan Cohen , linux-il. Subject: Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout Hi Yonatan, On Thu, Mar 05

Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout

2009-03-04 Thread Baruch Siach
Hi Yonatan, On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:45:17AM +0200, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > What is "standard Hebrew keyboard layout" (disregarding aleph-tav)? How about SI1452? http://www.qsm.co.il/NewHebrew/Key1452e.htm baruch > On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >>

Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout

2009-03-04 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
What is "standard Hebrew keyboard layout" (disregarding aleph-tav)? - yba On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 23:13:24 +0200 From: Dotan Cohen To: linux-il. Subject: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout Where is the RLM (right to left ma

RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout

2009-03-04 Thread Dotan Cohen
Where is the RLM (right to left mark) on the standard Hebrew keyboard layout? I have googled and found that I can configure the Lyx layout and then the RTM character is at Ctrl-Y, but can I make it Ctrl-{ like in another popular OS? Also, where is a list of the Shift characters in Lyx? I have

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