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Gyscos
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 Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 6:11 pm Post subject: Dead keys aren't so dead |
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Hello !
The last few days, I notices a troubling thing with konsole and many kde apps : I'm using a french keyboards with letters such as ê, which needs to first press ^ and then e (it's a dead key).
Until now, it has worked fine everywhere.
Now however, it seems to break almost everywhere...
Firefox only keeps the old behaviour, but every other app so far display the ^ as soon as I press the key, as if it wasn't a dead key...
I'm using scim-bridge to write in japanese from time to time, so I thought it may have been responsible, but this is not a X only issue, since I also get this in the tty...
I recently upgraded to kernel 2.6.32, and at first I thought it might be causing it, but then firefox wouldn't work...
So I really don't know what's happening... If anyone could help me, I would be really glad. For now, I have to write all my ê in firefox and then copy/paste them everywhere else... |
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Gyscos
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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| I forgot to mention it, but locale is LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_COLLATE=C. |
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boerKrelis
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| Gyscos wrote: | | For now, I have to write all my ê in firefox and then copy/paste them everywhere else... |
At the very least you could make your life easier by using a Compose key ;-)
1) setxkbmap -option 'compose:rwin'
2) press right windows key
3) press ^
4) press e
5) presto
I find the compose key quite useful actually. Have a look here for starters. |
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wilsonsamm
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What does the keyboard section of your xorg.conf look like?
Also, see if there's anything about it in the keyboard settings of KDE. |
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rodoke
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| boerKrelis wrote: | | Gyscos wrote: | | For now, I have to write all my ê in firefox and then copy/paste them everywhere else... |
At the very least you could make your life easier by using a Compose key 
1) setxkbmap -option 'compose:rwin'
2) press right windows key
3) press ^
4) press e
5) presto
I find the compose key quite useful actually. Have a look here for starters. |
(NB: I'm not the OP)
Unfortunately, I'm having the same problem with the compose key. All gtk+ programs recognize it, all kde4 programs ignore it. Enabling Compose Key through System Settings does nothing.
For the record, my keyboard is handled by evdev.
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<merge key="input.x11_options.XkbOptions" type="string">compose:menu</merge>
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I've also had the OP's problem with Keyboard Layouts (WhyTF did kiten4 get rid of direct kana input?!); I suspect they're related.
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wilsonsamm
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| also if you start your GUI by means of "startx", then make sure your .xinitrc is correct |
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Helix
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| Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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Exactly the same problem here. GTK+-Apps have working dead keys and QT-Apps not ... And to make things even more confusing I have a computer with virtually identical configuration and patchlevel at work and there it is working just fine.  It is driving me nuts ... |
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