Hebrew Support

[Benedikt Meurer]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>>I've spent some time on google and I see that Xfce does in fact have a
>>>Hebrew translation. I'd like to install it (I very much _need_ to
>>>install it). However, I can find no howto on the subject. Er, how to
>>>do it? I am on Kubuntu 5.10 on a 1.5Ghz P4 with 256MB RAM. Thanks.
>>
>>Add the universe repositories and 'sudo apt-get install xfce4'; that
>>should be it.  As for getting Hebrew specifically, I'm not sure,
>>though I think all it takes is a properly set locale.
>>
>>Let me know if there's anything else I can help with.
> 
> Wow, I feel stupid. The menus are in half-English, half-Hebrew. The
> English stood out for me, I didn't even notice the Hebrew was
> there....
> 
> But there is still the problem of entering Hebrew text. I went to
> System -> Keyboard and some other places, but cannot find out how to
> switch from English Text to Hebrew. How is the language switched?
> Thanks.

Never tried to enter Hebrew text, so I don't know what is required
exactly, but maybe the xfce4-xkb-plugin does what you need?

> Dotan Cohen

Benedikt