Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:20:29 -0700 From: John W <jwdevel@gmail.com> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compose key oddity Message-ID: <o2ofa8771801004272120ia3ad3fd3zf1921b386f4327cf@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4BD6D06D.6010601@icyb.net.ua> References: <k2sfa8771801004262139occ18fddetaf7f460acbb07786@mail.gmail.com> <4BD6D06D.6010601@icyb.net.ua>
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On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> wrote:
> on 27/04/2010 07:39 John W said the following:
>>
>> Is there some other configuration file(s) that are influencing things?
>
> ~/.XCompose
> And also your keyboard layout, of course.
> Perhaps when you press '.' button you indeed get dead_abovedot symbol in =
X?
>
> What's your keyboard layout?
> What happens if you just pres <dot> <dot> (without Compose key)?
> You can also run xev and see what keyboard events get generated on variou=
s key
> presses.
>
I have no ~/.XCompose file, so that's out.
If I press <dot> <dot>, I get two periods, so it can't be a dead key,
it seems. I think a dead key will not register the first time you
press it, if I understand correctly.
Running xev (thanks for telling me about that one!) gives interesting outpu=
t.
typing <rwin><dot><dot> gives these events:
KeyPress for keycode 115 (which is rwin)
KeyRelease for keycode 115
KeyPress for '.'
KeyRelease for '.'
KeyPress for '.'
KeyPress for '=85' <-- It sees the ellipsis!
KeyRelease for '.'
In fact the DOT ABOVE character doesn't show up in xev's output at all.
And yet it shows up everywhere else I try it.
To my surprise, I haven't yet found a good way to simply print out
what my current keyboard layout is...
Also I'm not sure if there's a separate layout for X and for the OS in
general, I think they're different.
For OS keyboard map:
I don't have anything defined in rc.conf, so I'm just using the kernel
default, I think.
However, looking at /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/NOTES, I see these lines:
# Options for atkbd:
options ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP # specify the built-in keymap
makeoptions ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP=3Djp.106
Can that really mean that I'm using a japanese keyboard layout by default?
If so, that seems wrong for me. I will keep trying to find a way to
simply determine what layout is currently being used - there must be
some command for it.
For X side of things, I see this in my Xorg.0.log:
(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
(**) AT Keyboard: XkbModel: "pc105"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "us"
(**) AT Keyboard: XkbLayout: "us"
I couldn't find a better way to determine my current in-use keyboard
map. Perhaps there's some command for that? 'setxkbmap -print' had
some cryptic output.
>> This is FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE, with Xorg 7.4.2; X.Org X Server 1.6.1, in
>> case that matters.
>
> I don't think that this is a FreeBSD-specific issue.
> There is a specialized xkb mailing list:
> http://listserv.bat.ru/xkb/List.html
>
Thanks for that link, I'll nose around there.
-John
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