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-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