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From:	Sneetsher <sneetsher AT gmail DOT com>
Date:	Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:38:15 +0100
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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] gschem shortcuts do not work with non-latin keyboard layout.
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Got it, Thank you guys.
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Abdellah Ch.

On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Vladimir Zhbanov <vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 01:28:25AM +0100, Sneetsher wrote:
>>    Hi,
>>    Actually, I use gEDA in Arabic and most of the time Arabic keyboard
>>    layout active. So the shortcuts do not works till I switch back to
>>    English. Is the any way to fix this behavior by mapping Arabic keys to
>>    the corresponding English within gschem.
>
> Yes, modern gschem (at least the latest git version which I use, and
> probably 1.8.x series) will provide this functionality if you spend some
> time on this.
> First find your system-gschemrc. If you don't know where it is, use the
> 'locate' command:
>   locate system-gschemrc
> Location of mine is /usr/local/share/gEDA/system-gschemrc.
> Then open that file in your text editor and find the "Keymapping"
> section. You will see lots of global-set-key functions, for example:
>   (global-set-key "A C" 'add-component)
> Select them all and copy in a new file, let's call it "local_keymap".
> Thereafter, you need to find your Arabic key names corresponding to
> English keys.  Type "xev" in your preferred X terminal (mine is uxterm)
> and play with it a little. When you type some keys there, you'll probably
> see keysym names like Arabic_xxx (I suspect). Change corresponding
> English letters in global-set-key definitions to your key names. I have
> a file with definitions looking like this (I use Cyrillic alphabet):
>   (global-set-key "Cyrillic_ef Cyrillic_es" 'add-component)
>
> After all is done you need to load this file. Place the "local_keymap"
> file to your ~/.gEDA directory and add the following line to
> ~/.gEDA/gschemrc:
>   (load "local_keymap")
>
> Now when you run gschem, your keys should behave the same way regardless
> of selected keymap, English or Arabic.
>
> You can add the global-set-key definitions directly to your gschemrc.
> Just don't edit system-gschemrc! If you change the functions there,
> English keymap will be lost. If you add them to user's or local
> project's rc file, they will work in addition to the default keymap.

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