Guide: step by step

Click Download for Windows. A file called Nixa_Setup.exe is saved in your Downloads folder.

Click Next, then Install. When it is done, the Nixa icon is on your desktop.

A short 3-step welcome shows you the Arabic features. Then log in with your usual Second Life account.

Press Alt + Shift (or Win + Space) to switch Windows to Arabic.

Letters join as you type and the line starts on the right. The cursor, selection and arrow keys all behave.

On the bottom toolbar. It turns Arabic on or off. Off = you see text exactly as other viewers show it. Shortcut: Ctrl+Alt+A.

In the chat where your friend is. The button turns gold, and your Arabic is sent pre-joined, like Arabic chat HUDs do.

Each chat has its own button. To turn it on for every new chat: Preferences → Arabic.

Click the smiley button next to the chat box. The small arrow next to it shows your recently used emoji.

Choose a category at the top, then click an emoji to add it to what you are typing. Your most used ones come first. Start typing while the window is open to search.

Type : and an English word, like :heart or :moon. A row of suggestions appears: click one, or move with the arrow keys and press Enter. Esc closes it.

Press Ctrl+P, then the Arabic tab. You find:

• Arabic joined, right to left (same as the gold button)
• Paragraphs lined up on the right
• Spell check skips Arabic
• New chats readable on every viewer

Click the theme picture (or See all themes) to open the theme gallery: dark, mid and light.

In the same tab: Your own colours. Pick a background colour and an accent colour. Interface size and text size are there too.

The Nearby button on the bottom toolbar, or Preferences → Nearby strip → Show the Nearby strip. It stays on screen until you turn it off.

Same tab: background see-through (names stay solid) and how many lines.

• Coming toward you
• Flying
• Many scripts (your region only)
• Green name = friend

Right-click their line → Notify me (or the heart on their profile). Pick a colour, a symbol, a private nickname and a chime.

When they come onto the land: a soft chime and a line in their colour. Only you see the nickname.

Party: for a busy place. Max: lighter than Party. Crash Attack: only your friends are drawn normally. Normal: your own settings come back.

The mode stays on after a teleport, and its name shows on the button.

At the top of the Nearby strip.

• Green: all fine
• Yellow: watch out
• Red: heavy lag, click it

Summary: is it your PC, your connection, a crowded region, or something that looks like an attack? Suspects: the objects behind it. Fix it: what you can do now. Numbers: the details.

In Suspects, pick a line: Show points to it, Hide stops drawing it until you log out (with Undo), Block blocks the owner, Report opens the abuse report with the object filled in.

In the Mode window: Protect me by itself. In an attack it turns on Shield, then Heavy shield, and puts your own mode back when things calm down.

Save My Safe spot (This place or Home) to allow Escape: if your PC is about to freeze, it moves you there, with a Go back button. After a freeze you can also log in at your Safe spot.