On 10/06/2006 12:00 AM, Lubos Vrbka wrote:
Mumia W.. wrote:Hit Control-Shift, and urxvt (rxvt-unicode) goes into Unicode digit acquisition mode. Release Control, and it goes into "keycap insertion mode." Jason, perhaps some keys you press in one of those modes cause ^P or something similar to be generated.but it is not possible to input accented characters in the rxvt-xpm... however, thanks for the clarification - it's indeed the 'keycap insertion mode' message that is displayed in the window from time to time... it there any way how to disable it?I use rxvt-xpm nowadays because of such strangeness.regards,
There is no way to disable the special input modes. That's why Debian provides both rxvt-xpm (rxvt) and urxvt (rxvt-unicode).
BTW, I can input accented characters in rxvt using my Multi_key (Compose). I used xmodmap to assign an unused key to the Compose key. I press Compose-A-` to get À.
Here are some more fun composed characters: § ½ ¶ ÷ × « » è é ö â ø ÿ I input them into rxvt-xpm and copied them into Thunderbird. HTH -- paduille.4058.mumia.w@earthlink.net