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diff --git a/system/bicon/README.Slackware b/system/bicon/README.Slackware deleted file mode 100644 index 5b3b0d83f5..0000000000 --- a/system/bicon/README.Slackware +++ /dev/null @@ -1,68 +0,0 @@ -Additional information about BiCon's behavior -============================================= - -BiCon behaves differently if called as "bicon" or "bicon.bin", and also -started from the console (or a tty) versus in a graphical environment. - -BiCon ships two keymaps: arabic.map.gz and ir.map.gz and some console -fonts, mainly bicon-8x16-512.psfu.gz. - -It can be started as "bicon" or "bicon.bin" - -If started as "bicon" it sets the keymap or keyboard layout in a way that -depends whether the "bicon" command is given or not an argument. - -1) If started as "bicon" from the console. - -If a two characters country code is given as argument it is considered -to choose the keymap, else the country (or "territory" to be accurate) -part of LANG is used. -_ If the country (converted to lowercase letters) is found in this list: - ae dz eg iq jo ko kw lb ly ma om qa sa sd sy tn ye - then the keymap "arabic" is chosen. -_ If the country is "IR" or "ir" then the keymap "ir" is chosen. - -The font bicon-8x16-512 is always used with its Unicode map. - -IMPORTANT. You won't be able to use the "setfont" command after having -started bicon as a regular user. You will have to tentatively become root -with "su" to change the font if you want. - -2) If started as "bicon" from an X terminal. - -You will need to use an UTF-8 able or enabled terminal. - -A switchable keyboard layout (us + the language that correspond to the -country set by the user or found in LANG) is set. - -IMPORTANT: -_ BiCon doesn't set the font. You'll have to do that yourself. Be careful - to use a font including the needed glyphs. -_ BiCon sets the "option" for the X server to: - "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll" - and the "layout" to: - "us,<ir or (country code)>" - -This will override the key combination that you possibly have set in -/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-keyboard-layout.conf to toggle keyboards. - -But you can change the settings made by BiCon with a command like this -one (after having started BiCon, of course): - setxkbmap \ - -display "$DISPLAY" \ - -layout "<layout1>,<layout2>" \ - -option "<your options"> \ - -print | \ - xkbcomp -w 2 - "$DISPLAY" - -3) If started as bicon.bin, BiCon doesn't load any font or keyboard. -You might prefer it that way if you want to keep your own settings. - -Reference: file bin/bicon.in in the source archive. - -See also: -_ man bicon -_ man bicon.bin -_ documents in /usr/doc/bicon-<version> - -Didier Spaier <didier at slint dot fr>, 27/07/2015 |