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Additional information about BiCon's behavior
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BiCon behaves differently if called as "bicon" or "bicon.bin", and also
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started from the console (or a tty) versus in a graphical environment.
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BiCon ships two keymaps: arabic.map.gz and ir.map.gz and some console
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fonts, mainly bicon-8x16-512.psfu.gz.
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It can be started as "bicon" or "bicon.bin"
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If started as "bicon" it sets the keymap or keyboard layout in a way that
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depends whether the "bicon" command is given or not an argument.
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1) If started as "bicon" from the console.
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If a two characters country code is given as argument it is considered
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to choose the keymap, else the country (or "territory" to be accurate)
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part of LANG is used.
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_ If the country (converted to lowercase letters) is found in this list:
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ae dz eg iq jo ko kw lb ly ma om qa sa sd sy tn ye
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then the keymap "arabic" is chosen.
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_ If the country is "IR" or "ir" then the keymap "ir" is chosen.
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The font bicon-8x16-512 is always used with its Unicode map.
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IMPORTANT. You won't be able to use the "setfont" command after having
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started bicon as a regular user. You will have to tentatively become root
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with "su" to change the font if you want.
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2) If started as "bicon" from an X terminal.
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You will need to use an UTF-8 able or enabled terminal.
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A switchable keyboard layout (us + the language that correspond to the
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country set by the user or found in LANG) is set.
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IMPORTANT:
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_ BiCon doesn't set the font. You'll have to do that yourself. Be careful
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to use a font including the needed glyphs.
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_ BiCon sets the "option" for the X server to:
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"grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
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and the "layout" to:
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"us,<ir or (country code)>"
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This will override the key combination that you possibly have set in
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/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-keyboard-layout.conf to toggle keyboards.
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But you can change the settings made by BiCon with a command like this
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one (after having started BiCon, of course):
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setxkbmap \
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-display "$DISPLAY" \
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-layout "<layout1>,<layout2>" \
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-option "<your options"> \
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-print | \
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xkbcomp -w 2 - "$DISPLAY"
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3) If started as bicon.bin, BiCon doesn't load any font or keyboard.
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You might prefer it that way if you want to keep your own settings.
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Reference: file bin/bicon.in in the source archive.
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See also:
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_ man bicon
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_ man bicon.bin
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_ documents in /usr/doc/bicon-<version>
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Didier Spaier <didier at slint dot fr>, 27/07/2015
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