@Zanna I'm curious if you have been learning/playing/working/exploring with Ruby lately. But I fully understand if you don't feel like discussing it.

Sorry for my absence

totally planning to reply to all that stuff up there ^ some time soon

I haven't been playing with Ruby at all. Lately I have been trying to learn a natural language instead

Oh, cool -- which natural language?

Tamil

it's very different from all the other languages I know at all, which is nice

You've been interested in Tamil for a while, right?

Have you found that Konsole is the only graphical terminal emulator that displays Tamil text readably?

I haven't found another one that does

yes I've been trying to learn for a while now but my progress is extremely slow!

there was a question related to that terminal emulator issue recently

Another interesting issue relating to Indian languages on Ubuntu was that someone decided that Indian language keyboard layouts should be removed from the Ubuntu default installation and repositories because "they aren't useful". Gunnar Hjalmarsson posted an answer about to some questions about "hey where's my keyboard layout"

The reason someone might consider those layouts not useful is that they are only familiar with one or some that are really difficult to write with a keyboard layout. I guess one such could be Urdu, because the word-position of letters determines their form (I learned how to write Persian script about 15 years ago so I understand this issue somewhat, but I don't know Urdu as such).

But that doesn't apply to all Indian languages... it's completely possible to write Tamil with a keyboard layout (rather than a phonetic method), for example

anyway, happily, there was a bug report, and the layouts came back (in 17.10 I think)

it's because I discussed that issue with Gunnar that I think of him as a language support expert

@Zanna Do you mean that Urdu has initial and/or final forms of some letters? Or is it more complicated than that?

initial, middle and final

@Zanna We should be able to answer that. In its Preferences dialog, Geany has a Tools tab. One of the tools is "Terminal," with a default value of:

x-terminal-emulator -e "/bin/sh %c"

That can be changed to anything.

The lazy approach to answering the question would be to say to write konsole in place of x-terminal-emulator, but the OP probably wants x-terminal-emulator to run Konsole anywhere else it is used, too, so reconfiguring what it runs is probably best.

awesome!

I'm glad I mentioned it

I'm glad you did, too.

I don't have it installed, and the online manpages site and dman don't find its manpage under that name.

that's how I run it, but shall I look in its .desktop file?

Yes, thank you. That may speak to what flags it accepts, too.

paste.ubuntu.com/p/PmfpV2dxXg

Thanks.

Does man konsole bring up its manpage?

no

Can you tell if it accepts -e?

what should that do?

oh yes it does

like, I can type konsole -e /bin/zsh and get a zsh shell

zsh was exactly the example I was going to suggest! :)

Then it works, excellent.

haha you remember that I have Zsh :)

I have posted an answer.

thanks a lot! +1 to your answer :D

nice FHRCs

Thanks! :)

I take pride in my freehand RCs.

:D