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Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 01:47:57 +0400
From: Vladimir Zhbanov <vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] gschem shortcuts do not work with non-latin keyboard
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On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 01:28:25AM +0100, Sneetsher wrote:
>    Hi,
>    Actually, I use gEDA in Arabic and most of the time Arabic keyboard
>    layout active. So the shortcuts do not works till I switch back to
>    English. Is the any way to fix this behavior by mapping Arabic keys to
>    the corresponding English within gschem.

Yes, modern gschem (at least the latest git version which I use, and
probably 1.8.x series) will provide this functionality if you spend some
time on this.
First find your system-gschemrc. If you don't know where it is, use the
'locate' command:
  locate system-gschemrc
Location of mine is /usr/local/share/gEDA/system-gschemrc.
Then open that file in your text editor and find the "Keymapping"
section. You will see lots of global-set-key functions, for example:
  (global-set-key "A C" 'add-component)
Select them all and copy in a new file, let's call it "local_keymap".
Thereafter, you need to find your Arabic key names corresponding to
English keys.  Type "xev" in your preferred X terminal (mine is uxterm)
and play with it a little. When you type some keys there, you'll probably
see keysym names like Arabic_xxx (I suspect). Change corresponding
English letters in global-set-key definitions to your key names. I have
a file with definitions looking like this (I use Cyrillic alphabet):
  (global-set-key "Cyrillic_ef Cyrillic_es" 'add-component)

After all is done you need to load this file. Place the "local_keymap"
file to your ~/.gEDA directory and add the following line to
~/.gEDA/gschemrc:
  (load "local_keymap")

Now when you run gschem, your keys should behave the same way regardless
of selected keymap, English or Arabic.

You can add the global-set-key definitions directly to your gschemrc.
Just don't edit system-gschemrc! If you change the functions there,
English keymap will be lost. If you add them to user's or local
project's rc file, they will work in addition to the default keymap.