[Gllug] Keyboard Oddity

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

On Sat, May 3, 2008 18:50, Anthony Newman wrote:
> salsaman at xs4all.nl wrote:
>> No, that is not the problem. For example when he tries to type I'm, the
>> first "'" is assumed to be an accent, then he presses "m", which should
>> be
>> an "accented m". Such a character does not exist, even in UTF-8 fonts.
>>
>
> The expression you're looking for is "dead keys". They're very useful
> when they work, but seem no longer to be on funny Alt-shifted keys like
> they used to be, and are now on related punctuation keys. `xmodmap -pk`
> will show you which symbols are mapped to which keys; those preceded
> with dead_ are "dead key" sequence initiators, as seen in the xev output.
>
> You can either override them manually with suitable entries in
> ~/.Xmodmap or change the keymap to one without dead keys. The entries in
>   xorg.conf are typically insufficient to do this, and it's not related
> to the locale, so it'll be some graphical doobrey within (presumably)
> Gnome or KDE.
>
>
> Ant
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KDE has kxkb.

if running kde, you should check this.


Gabriel.


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