[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2002290] Re: Poor Arabic rendering in VTE

2023-02-15 Thread M.Hanny Sabbagh
@Egmont: Thank you for the valuable feedback. First I would like to ask you to forgive me if some of my words are not clear or vague; I am not a native English speaker so it is a little bit hard when I write long responses like this. I hope I am correctly delivering my ideas to you and others. I

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2002290] Re: Poor Arabic rendering in VTE

2023-02-15 Thread M.Hanny Sabbagh
** Attachment added: "nano output with autodetect.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/2002290/+attachment/5647494/+files/nano%20output%20with%20autodetect.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2002290] Re: Poor Arabic rendering in VTE

2023-02-15 Thread M.Hanny Sabbagh
** Attachment added: "cat output with autodetect.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/2002290/+attachment/5647491/+files/cat%20output%20with%20autodetect.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed t

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2002290] Re: Poor Arabic rendering in VTE

2023-02-15 Thread M.Hanny Sabbagh
** Attachment added: "cat output with LTR.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/2002290/+attachment/5647492/+files/cat%20output%20with%20LTR.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-termin

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2002290] Re: Poor Arabic rendering in VTE

2023-02-15 Thread M.Hanny Sabbagh
** Attachment added: "nano output with LTR.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/2002290/+attachment/5647493/+files/nano%20output%20with%20LTR.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-term

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2002290] Re: Poor Arabic rendering in VTE

2023-02-15 Thread M.Hanny Sabbagh
@Gunnar: Thank you for the continous help. I have tested the new update and indeed it now respects the font size of Monospace font in GNOME Tweaks (image attached). Thanks again! ** Attachment added: "gnome-terminal new monospace.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2002290] Re: Poor Arabic rendering in VTE

2023-02-01 Thread M.Hanny Sabbagh
Thank you Gunnar for fixing the font issue in gnome terminal. So now, we can say that bug 1 is fixed. The only thing that remains is related to bug 2 and the RTL text auto-detection in VTE. I am yet to hear from Egmont on anything we can do in this regard. I hope we can find a solution to use the

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2002290] Re: Poor Arabic rendering in VTE

2023-01-25 Thread M.Hanny Sabbagh
Thank you Gunnar, for the help! Indeed it works well on my testing (image attached); GNOME Terminal's custom font option is disabled (so it is using the default font), and Ubuntu Mono is still used in GNOME Tweaks, and still the GNOME Terminal now uses Monospace font by default, making the first p

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2002290] Re: Poor Arabic rendering in VTE

2023-01-15 Thread M.Hanny Sabbagh
Hi Egmond. Thank you for the info. About lam-alif: Yes, you are right. It indeed is displayed like a U in my screenshot, although it should have been similar to a "y", but as you said, it is not that terribly bad and can be read without an issue. Perhaps we can improve it in a future work! About

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2002290] Re: Poor Arabic rendering in VTE

2023-01-15 Thread M.Hanny Sabbagh
** Attachment added: "VTE BiDi LTR base.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/2002290/+attachment/5641433/+files/VTE%20BiDi%20LTR%20base.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal i

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2002290] Re: Poor Arabic rendering in VTE

2023-01-15 Thread M.Hanny Sabbagh
** Attachment added: "VTE BiDi RTL base.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/2002290/+attachment/5641432/+files/VTE%20BiDi%20RTL%20base.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal i

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2002290] Re: Poor Arabic rendering in VTE

2023-01-15 Thread M.Hanny Sabbagh
** Attachment added: "VTE BiDi autodetect.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/2002290/+attachment/5641431/+files/VTE%20BiDi%20autodetect.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2002290] Re: Poor Arabic rendering in VTE

2023-01-12 Thread M.Hanny Sabbagh
Hi Egmont. For bug 1, yes, fontconfig can be used for this. We even have a special configuration file at /etc/fonts/conf.d/56-language-selector-ar.conf to use a different font when the system language is Arabic (Noto Sans Arabic). I believe it can be tweaked to use a custom Monospace font when sys

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2002290] Re: Poor Arabic rendering in VTE

2023-01-12 Thread M.Hanny Sabbagh
** Attachment added: "VTE with RTL enabled.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/2002290/+attachment/5640984/+files/VTE%20with%20RTL%20enabled.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-term

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2002290] Re: Poor Arabic rendering in VTE

2023-01-12 Thread M.Hanny Sabbagh
** Attachment added: "lam-alif ligature in GNOME Terminal (without, with).png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/2002290/+attachment/5640983/+files/lam-alif%20ligature%20in%20GNOME%20Terminal%20%28without%2C%20with%29.png -- You received this bug notification becau

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2002290] Re: Poor Arabic rendering in VTE

2023-01-10 Thread M.Hanny Sabbagh
Also I found the default Monospace used in Ubuntu. It is DejaVu Sans Mono: mhsabbagh@ubuntu2204:/$ fc-match monospace DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book" -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2002290] Re: Poor Arabic rendering in VTE

2023-01-10 Thread M.Hanny Sabbagh
** Attachment added: "apt output in gedit.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vte/+bug/2002290/+attachment/5640503/+files/apt%20output%20in%20gedit.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubunt

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2002290] Re: Poor Arabic rendering in VTE

2023-01-10 Thread M.Hanny Sabbagh
Hello Egmont. Thank you for the detailed reply and for fixing my understanding about these issues. I also highly appreciate your work and help! I was using the default font in Ubuntu, but when I changed it to Monospace 9 (or even 12) as you suggested, the spaces issues disappeared and the text is

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2002290] Re: Poor Arabic rendering in VTE

2023-01-10 Thread M.Hanny Sabbagh
** Attachment added: "apt output in the browser with RTL.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vte/+bug/2002290/+attachment/5640502/+files/apt%20output%20in%20the%20browser%20with%20RTL.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is s

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2002290] Re: Poor Arabic rendering in VTE

2023-01-10 Thread M.Hanny Sabbagh
** Attachment added: "apt output in gnome terminal.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vte/+bug/2002290/+attachment/5640501/+files/apt%20output%20in%20gnome%20terminal.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gno

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2002290] Re: Poor Arabic rendering in VTE

2023-01-10 Thread M.Hanny Sabbagh
** Attachment added: "gnome terminal with Monospace 12.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vte/+bug/2002290/+attachment/5640500/+files/gnome%20terminal%20with%20Monospace%2012.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribe

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2002290] Re: Poor Arabic rendering in VTE

2023-01-10 Thread M.Hanny Sabbagh
** Attachment added: "gnome terminal with Monospace 9 font.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vte/+bug/2002290/+attachment/5640499/+files/gnome%20terminal%20with%20Monospace%209%20font.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 2002290] [NEW] Poor Arabic rendering in VTE

2023-01-09 Thread M.Hanny Sabbagh
Public bug reported: VTE has a number of issues when it comes to rendering Arabic letters in the terminal, which could affect a number of languages (Arabic, Urdu, Persian... etc). Bug 1: Any Arabic word in any VTE-based terminal is choppily displayed with spaces between its letters, making readab

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1752938] Re: Upgrading Ubuntu 18.04 disables GPU hardware acceleration

2018-04-30 Thread M.Hanny Sabbagh
Confirmed here too. Instead of using my Intel 520 HD, the system is using: "llvmpipe (LLVM 6.0, 256 bits)" (The details section from GNOME Center). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1752938] Re: Upgrading Ubuntu 18.04 disables GPU hardware acceleration

2018-04-30 Thread M.Hanny Sabbagh
Xorg log file, containing some error messages "No input driver specified". ** Attachment added: "Xorg log file" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1752938/+attachment/5131232/+files/Xorg.0.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 952956] Re: lightdm not is not loging to sessions in 12.04~B1..

2016-04-05 Thread M.Hanny Sabbagh
Hey Robert, 4 years is not a long time, isn't? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/952956 Title: lightdm not is not loging to sessions in 12.04~B1.. Status in lightdm pack