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any body knows how to adjust layout to bachnged by alt+shift

hi actually this is the most serious problem I've ever met I ise slackware 10.2 - moved lately to kde 3.5 my problem is that layout options can't be changed by keyboard except by alt+ctrl+k , and I tried to adjust it to be changed by using alt+shift groups but it didn't work . I ofcourse had arabic instaled and supported , so please don't tell me to add that known line in xorg.conf since it is not working in the help section of kde I realized that non latin languages like arabic don't recognize alt+shift and that I have to edit /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xorg and uncomment $nonlatin and add arabic and also I have to make /etc/X11/xkb/sympols/ar recognize alt+shift groups . I really searched for along time to solve this but invain , so If some bosy is using slackware and had it solved please tell me .

activating alt+shift gruops in kde control center or adding them manually to xorg.conf is not working .

adding this line : setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us,ar -variant ,digits -option grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp:ctrl_shift_toggle

to /etc/profile is not working also

I believe you should have

Tw33Ty's picture

add this lines to


     Option     "XkbLayout"     "us,ar"
     Option     "XkbOptions"    "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"

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