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Old 05-23-2018, 09:43 PM   #1
nanographics1
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how to change between english and arabic keyboards


Hi,
I have added Arabic Keyboard in addition to English in Fedora 27. But I couldn't change between the two keyboards.
Your answers are highly appreciated.
Thanks
 
Old 05-24-2018, 01:46 AM   #2
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Are you saying you have 2 keyboards? To change keyboards you need to install the proper locale, and in settings, choose the keyboard layout you prefer.
 
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Old 05-24-2018, 11:10 AM   #3
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Basically, you need to

1. Enable the Arabic driver, and you've got that done!

2. Set up a method for switching between layouts. That's covered by the sites I've linked to below, but you could try right-clicking on the panel and seeing if there's a keyboard indicator available. I'm sorry to be vague, but I don't know whether you have Gnome or KDE, and it's years since I've used either.
https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-h...ayouts.html.en
https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kde-w...d/layouts.html

3. Configure LibreOffice. Click on Tools - Options - Language settings - Languages. Then tick the box "Complex text layout" and select the language from the pull-down list.
There are very useful free instruction books for this software
https://documentation.libreoffice.or...documentation/

Extra
If ever you want a different Arabic font, here's a guide
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Arabic.html

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