after a week of practicing with the arabic keys , i still type with a very slow rate that i thought of another solution to this arabic writing problem, it works best for me after getting used to it in like 2 hours or something. recently i use lyx as my favourite word processor, this procedure only works with lyx. the solution in a few words is to replace the lyx arabic keymap so that the A becomes alef and the T becomes teh and so on, instead of the typical keymap that puts the the alef on H key etc.. all you need to do is to replace the file /usr/share/lyx/kbd/arabic.kmap with the modified version (assuming you have lyx supporting arabic already)*. one problem i faced is to find equevelants for some arabic letters like 3en 3'en and 7'ah , but it wasn't that hard to find unused keys for them though it needs some practice to get used to them, a help file containing those special letters and their equevelants is made to make things easier.

you can get the files here http://mhlmi.is-a-geek.org/tiki-list_file_gallery.php?galleryId=3

• you can find informatin on how to get arabic support with lyx here http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~dekelts/lyx/arabic-instructions.txt

• it's possible to make something simillar for X