SuSE 8.0 + Greek

[Andreas Daskalopoulos]

Agapitoi xristes tou SuSE 8.0

Odigies gia ellinika GIA SUSE 8.0:

Kata kairous stin lista exoume dei polla minimata gia ellinika se SuSE
8.0. Auto einai ena akoma empnesmeuno apo sxetiki selida apo ton dj
Art. (den thimamai to onoma tou paidiou para mono auto to nick name).
An den ta exete kataferei os tora na valete ellinika sto SuSE
8.0. dokimaste kai ta parakato.


1. Egkatastasi Truetype grammatoseiron
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Arxika thelo na dieukriniso oti den xreiazetai na valete ta paketa apo
to Graphis (xfntgreek*.rpm, kapos etsi legontai) 
Ego den ta evala kai eimai mia xara mono me ta truetype fonts.
O tropos egkatastasis truetype fonts einai o eksis:

su
password
cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
mkdir ttf

Opos fainetai parapano ftiaxneis ena neo directory me onoma ttf. 

Stin sinexeia kaneis copy ola ta truetype fonts pou exeis sto
directory fonts ton windows sou sto directory pou ftiaksame prin. 

mount /windows/C
cd /windows/C/windows/fonts
su
password
cp *.ttf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts

Stin sinexeia prepei na exete mia efarmogi pou legetai ttmkfdir. Pata
stin konsola ttm os root kai meta tab. An iparxei i efarmogi tote tha tin kanei
autocomplete kai tha grapsei ttmkfdir. An den tin exete egkatestimeni
koitate sta cd's tis dianomis SuSE (to exei). An then ta exeis ta cd
tote tsekare to url:

http://www.joerg-pommnitz.de/TrueType/ttmkfdir.tar.gz
(i psaksete sto google gia to ttmkfdir. Den ksero an douleuei to parapano
url. Pantos tha einai eukolo na to vreis gia katevasma)

Stin sinexeia:

cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf
ttmkfdir -o fonts.dir

2. Energopoisi ton ellinikon locale
-----------------------------------
Ego sto SuSE mou den akoulouthisa tis odigies ton ipoloipon sxetikon
e-mail (peri xrisis tou sysconfig editor apo to Yast. An den exete
diavasei allo sxetiko e-mail gia ellinika sto SuSE 8.0 mi lavete
ipopsi sas ta logia mou se auti tin parenthesi). 

Eftiaksa ena neo arxeio me onoma profile.local pou periexei mono tin
parakato grammi (se auto to arxeio prosthetontas grammes mporeite na
kanete polla oraia pragmata. Na to thimaste auto to arxeio!):

export LC_CTYPE=el_GR.ISO-8859-7

Stin sinexeia os root to evala sto /etc. Diladi dimiourgisa to arxeio
/etc/profile.local

An exeis idi ena tetoio arxeio dokimase na prostheseis sto telos tou
arxeiou tin parapano grammi.

3. Rithmisi ton X-Windows
-------------------------

Me ena ergaleio rithmisis tou X server sou (SAX2 sto
SuSE i me ena apo ta eksis programmata os root apo konsola opos ta
xf86config, xf86cfg, XF86Setup etc. Sinisto to xf86config apo
konsola. To SAX2 kanei kati kolpa ores ores eno to xf86config einai
aplo kai euxristo alla oxi toso euxaristo oso to SAX2. Prepei na 
ksereis omos kapoia pragmata gia tin othoni sou prin to
xrisimopoiseis, opote an the thes na mplekeis kante
tin rithmisi me to SAX2.) Stin epilogi gia to pliktrologio
epelekse elliniko prliktrologio. 

Afou teliosei i rithmisi. Ksnanaleo afou exei teliosei i rithmisi!:

Anoiksete to XF86Config os root (/etc/X11/XF86Config) kai stin 
enotita tou pliktrologiou (Section "Input Device" ,identifier
keyboard. Se sas mporei na einai ligo allios. To arxeio exei 
dimiourgithei apo to xf86config sto diko mou computer. Alla kai apo 
SAX2 na itane kati paromoio einai. Telos panton einai polo eukolo na to deite) 
kante ti etsi:

Option "XkbRules"   "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel"   "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout"  "el"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:ctrl_shift_toggle"

H deuteri grammi eksartatai apo ton arithmo ton pliktron pou keyboard
sou. Ego exo 104 pliktra. I tetarti eksartatai apo ton tropo pou
theleis na allazei se ellinika. Edo exo valei ctrl-shift. Ama thelete
valte ena apo ta parakato:

"grp:shift_toggle" (ta 2 shift mazi)
"grp:ctrl_shift_toggle", 
"grp:ctrl_alt_toggle"

Episis ligo parapano sto idio arxeio prosthesete sto Section "Files"
tin eksis grammi (exei polles tetoies grammes ekei):

FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf/"

Soste to arxeio.

Kante restart to X-Window system.

4. Telos
-------- 

Se kathe ena apo ta programmata pou xrisimopoieite tha pigainete sta
otions kai tha dialegete mia grammatoseira pou vlepei ellinika.

Dokimasete prota na pas sto enlightement, sawfish, windowmaker i allon 
windows manager (min mpeis sto KDE i Gnome akoma). Anoiksete ena emacs.
Pata shift+ctrl. Gia des an exeis ellinika. Dokimasete kai alla
programmata kai vale mia grammatoseira pou ipostirizei ellinika. Px
anoikse ena kwrite as poume kai apo tο configure editor valete
na xrisimopoiei arial i as poume verdana. Gia patiste
Shift-Ctrl. Grafete ellinika me sosta tonismena grammata. NAI!!!

Bravo sas ...

Tora apo Gnome eiste entaksei. Me shift+Ctrl eiste comple gia
ellinika.

Sto KDE prepei na pate kai na energopoisete apo to Control Center sto
keyboard os additional layout ta ellinika. Tha exete ena simaiaki kai
ta allazete se elliniko "mode" me Ctrl+Alt+k. Meta gia na pate se
agglika <--> ellinika me ton gnosto tropo Shift-Ctrl.

Den dino odigies gia konsola. Ama thelete ellinika se konsola sto
X-Window System anoiksete ena konsole kai valte elliniki
grammatoseira. Tha eiste ok. Gia xterm, wterm diavasete ta man tous
kai deite pos tha valete font tetoio pou na exete ellinika. Ego
xrisimopoio rxvt (ena eidos konsolas telos panton) kai me ta ellinika
doulepsan me ti mia xoris rithmiseis.

5. An den doulepsoun ta parapano min apogoiteuteite. Ksana apo tin
   arxi ta e-mail kai tis odigies. Kai an tote tsifos ... ti na po. 
   Prospatheia! Kai go stin arxi ta eixa dei ola kai mou eixane spasei
   ta veura ta diafora e-mail me odigies kai ta ta html me episis
   odigies.