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donovan

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Registered: 2017-07-22

Posts: 7

Typing Arabic in gnome-terminal

Using Cinnamon and Arabic is enabled + shortcut to switch between English and Arabic.

Works fine in all applications except Terminal where it displays from left-to-right instead of right-to-left.

Anyone know how to enable right-to-left language support in Gnome Terminal/Terminator?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,046

Re: Typing Arabic in gnome-terminal

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bicon-git/
Afaik, only konsole has integrated bidirectional input support.

No idea whether bicon will work with eg. vim (or wherever you intend to use this)

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donovan

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Registered: 2017-07-22

Posts: 7

Re: Typing Arabic in gnome-terminal

Just figured this out:

yaourt -S fribidi

then:

yaourt -S bicon-git

Need to run this every time I open a terminal which basically refreshes the terminal with Arabic support: /usr/bin/bicon.bin

So my next question is:

How do I get Terminator to automatically run this binary file on opening a profile then run whatever command I set?

To explain what I'm doing: I have a Reddit window with 4 vertical terminals in Terminator. One of the subreddits is Arabic language related. So I want Terminator to run that bicon.bin file, then open up rtv automatically.