[Gllug] Nasty characters creeping in on xorg desktop

[Russell Howe]

On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 01:36:05PM +0100, john at sinodun.org.uk wrote:
> If I run xev and press the apostrophe key once I get:
> 
> KeyPress event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x2a00001,
>     root 0x4c, subw 0x2a00002, time 19548394, (48,57), root:(720,112),
>     state 0x0, keycode 48 (keysym 0xfe51, dead_acute), same_screen YES,
--------------------------------------------^^^^

I think that's your problem, although what in your XKB setup is marking
it as a dead key, I don't know.

It might not be all that helpful, but I found a pretty reasonable guide
to XKB here:

http://www.charvolant.org/~doug/xkb/html/

It depends how deeply you want to understand XKB :)

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