Yamli is all the rage these days. It's an Arabic search engine and "smart" keyboard that lets you type in Arabic letters in way of their similarly sounding English letters. So, if you want to type " الاردن اولا," you would type "alordn aola" in English and Yamli's text box will generate the Arabic text for you. However, Yamli only works within the browser. (last time I checked). So, to be able to do the same system wide, I figured I will just modify the system's Arabic keymap to type the letter I want when pressing the English letter. This way, I can press M and get م, N-->ن, and the number 3 and get ع, the number 7 and get ح. and this works system wide. You can use it with open office text editor, renaming files, naming songs, i.e. everywhere. This is how I did it:
in terminal (Applications-->Accessories-->Terminal) type
gksudo nautilus
this will grant you access to modify system files. So, be careful!
a window will open and ask you for a password.
it's the same password you created when you set up ubuntu
after you successfully enter a password:
the root file browser opens showing the desktop
click on
"file System" in the left side panel and navigate to
usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ara
this will open, in a text editor, the Arabic keyboard layout/keymap that is pre-installed.
delete all text, copy the keymap from this page, and paste it in. Save, reboot, enjoy!
the layout I am using is based on
this, windows only, Arabic keyboard. of course, you can add, delete, move, replace all you want!
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Whaaa? ... Mab3oos posting linux tips? I *have* been gone for a long time :-D
just kidding .. cool idea though. For some reason, I find it easier (i.e. faster) for me to type Arabic using the standard Arabic keys layout .. i some how have a rough (but almost acurate) idea of where the letters are. But whatever works i guess
KJ,
I put that message in the linked-to code. this way, mab3oos can live on your computer...for ever! lol (evil laugh)
za3tar,
yes, you HAVE been away all this time. welcome back.
The reason I like this layout is that I never used the standard Arabic keyboard layout. So, the online keyboard I linked to above made sense to me. Also, Yamli's method will probably take over!
Anyways, I posted this stuff because I went through A LOT of trial and error and thought it would be صدقة جارية lol!
That's very cool.
I wish I could suppress the Yamli popup on Qwaider's site when I comment there. I click the "Don't show this again" and it always does show it.
Very cool :)
Marvin, please email me so we can fix your issue with Yamli on Qwaider's blog - info AT Yamli DOT com and happy to look into it directly :)
Hi
I've just adapted your idea to a French keyboard … There might be some updates, but basically the Arabic letters are on the correspondent Latin letters, and the Latin ones can be obtained by holding the AltGr key (in case they're needed).
If you're interested in posting it on your blog, let me know.
Cheers,
Pascal
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