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Re: Eliminating dead keys under X
Does this problem happens with all X apps or just the one ?
Does the keyboard behave differently in Windows ?
What keyboard layout do you have set ?
What does the X server say about it (startup or log messages) ?
Regards,
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:46:13 +0100
Subject: Re: Eliminating dead keys under X
> Hallöchen!
>
> Larry Hall (Cygwin X) writes:
>
> > Torsten Bronger wrote:
> >
> >> I use X applications that run on a remote Linux server on my
> >> local Windows system. I use PuTTY and Cygwin's X server for
> >> this. Unfortunately, ~, ', ` etc are dead keys in this
> >> configuration. How can I change this?
> >
> > Is something like:
> >
> >
> <http://groups.google.com/group/comp.windows.x.i386unix/browse_thread/thread/8a39afff9456db76/6d7
> 2de4d298cf37c?lnk=raot>
> >
> > not the answer
>
> Partly. If I pass
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> keycode 21 = acute grave cedilla ogonek cedilla ogonek
> keycode 34 = udiaeresis Udiaeresis diaeresis degree diaeresis degree
> keycode 35 = plus asterisk asciitilde dead_macron asciitilde dead_macron
> keycode 48 = adiaeresis Adiaeresis asciicircum caron asciicircum caron
> keycode 49 = asciicircum degree notsign notsign notsign notsign
> keycode 51 = numbersign apostrophe grave breve grave breve
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> as a file to xmodmap, it works. However, the hint with XF86Config
> doesn't help me much. I found no xorg.conf file on my Cygwin
> installation (does this mean that it's broken?) so I created on with
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
> Driver "kbd"
> Option "CoreKeyboard"
> Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
> Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
> Option "XkbLayout" "de"
> Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
> EndSection
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> in /etc, with a copy in /etc/X11. However, it didn't have any
> effect. An .Xmodmap or .xmodmaprc in my home directory had no
> effect either.
>
> Tschö,
> Torsten.
>
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