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From: Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: GNU/Linux is the Empowerment of the PC. So What Do You Do?
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 14:39:59 -0500
Organization: Modern Human
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On 4/6/24 12:04, Farley Flud wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 10:10:27 -0500, Physfitfreak wrote:
> 
>>
>> Done all that! There's no problem in installing a Persian keyboard
>> layout. The main issue is that the layout works only in certain apps and
>> not the rest. They don't carry that layout into every app one uses in
>> Linux.
>>
> 
> I cannot believe that.
> 
> If you are using a GUI, then your are likely using X Window.  With X,
> the keyboard is handled independently from any application.  X just
> interprets the keypress and sends it to the application.  Therefore
> all applications should work.
> 
> In other words, applications do not implement the keyboard; X implements
> the keyboard on behalf of the application.
> 
> If the application does not "carry" the layout (whatever that means) then
> the application, and not Linux, is at fault.
> 

Then the application is at fault :) Therefore Linux nommo.