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Re: why does control-4 generate SIGQUIT in X?



On 2012-05-22 17:02:56 -0400, Eric Cooper wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 07:42:14AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > Yes, stty quit "" works!!
> 
> Unfortunately, I'd still like ^\ to generate SIGQUIT, but
> "stty quit ^\" also enables ctrl-4 as an alias.

Ctrl-4 generating ^\ is a keyboard configuration setting that can
be seen with xev:

KeyPress event, serial 40, synthetic NO, window 0x3200001,
    root 0x2b4, subw 0x0, time 87345747, (114,90), root:(1719,110),
    state 0x4, keycode 13 (keysym 0x34, 4), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (1c) ""
    XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (1c) ""
    XFilterEvent returns: False

Byte 1c (= 28 in decimal) is ^\.

FYI, Ctrl-3 to Ctrl-7 respectively generate 1b to 1f, and Ctrl-8
generates 7f (DEL).

Since this happens just under X, I'd say that it is related to XKB.
However the XKB keyboard description generated with

  xkbcomp $DISPLAY xkb.dump

doesn't show anything related to this behavior.

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