Re: Not getting the letter I press
on Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 04:34:51PM +0100, martin f krafft (madduck@debian.org) wrote:
> Alt-R+a is xmodmapped to ? over here with the same settings that work
> at a friend's 3.3.3.1 XF86 machine. I run 4.2.1 from testing here and
> it doesn't:
>
> KeyRelease event, serial 19, synthetic NO, window 0x12800001,
> root 0x26, subw 0x0, time 669827654, (119,76), root:(745,326),
> state 0x2000, keycode 38 (keysym 0xe4, adiaeresis), same_screen YES,
> XLookupString gives 1 characters: ""
>
> It produces the correct keysym ("adiaeresis"), but nothing is echoed
> to my terminal or whatever application.
>
> these are the options for the keyboard:
>
> Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
> Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
> Option "XkbLayout" "us"
> Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
>
> How can I make it produce the ? character, which is adiaeresis on my
> system? Where does the error lie?
xkeycap may reveal what's going on. Look into it.
Peace.
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