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khym.cha...@gmail.com  
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 More options Mar 2 2006, 8:16 pm
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix, comp.windows.x.kde
From: khym.cha...@gmail.com
Date: 2 Mar 2006 17:16:00 -0800
Subject: X occasionally spits out dead keys
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I'm using XFree86 4.3-8.2 with KDE  3.1.4-1. Every once in a while I do
*something* which causes the keys ", ', and ~ to spit out "dead" keys.
When typing in an xterm, I have to hit one of those keys twice in a row
to get the character I want, and I can't use them at all in XEmacs.  I
have no idea what I'm doing to cause this. It must be some weird key
combination I accidently press or something, but whatever it is I can
never figure it out.

So, does anyone know how to either:

1) Get out of this "dea key mode", or
2) Prevent it from ever happening?

Thanks in advance.


 
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noj...@gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br  
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 More options Mar 3 2006, 7:12 pm
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From: noj...@gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br
Date: 3 Mar 2006 16:12:51 -0800
Local: Fri, Mar 3 2006 7:12 pm
Subject: Re: X occasionally spits out dead keys
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khym.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm using XFree86 4.3-8.2 with KDE  3.1.4-1. Every once in a while I do
> *something* which causes the keys ", ', and ~ to spit out "dead" keys.
> When typing in an xterm, I have to hit one of those keys twice in a row
> to get the character I want, and I can't use them at all in XEmacs.  I
> have no idea what I'm doing to cause this. It must be some weird key
> combination I accidently press or something, but whatever it is I can
> never figure it out.

> So, does anyone know how to either:

> 1) Get out of this "dea key mode", or

You can save the display keyboard map to a with

       xmodmap -pke | fgrep -i dead > file_name

After that you can edit the file, change the dead keys to "live" ones
and
run

       xmodmap file_name

Or you can run

        xmodmap -pke | sed
's/dead_tilde/asciitilde/g;s/dead_\(double\)*//g;s/belowdot//g;s/acute/apos trophe/g;s/circumflex/asciicircum/g'
| xmodmap -

Notice that it is just one long command line (cross your fingers :-)

> 2) Prevent it from ever happening?

Dead keys are configured in XF86Config or dynamically via xmodmap or
XKB. In your case I guess KDE is configuring your keyboard to use dead
keys. Ther is a keyboard map configuration tool somwhere in the KDE
main menu.

--- Casantos


 
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 More options Mar 3 2006, 10:21 pm
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From: khym.cha...@gmail.com
Date: 3 Mar 2006 19:21:36 -0800
Local: Fri, Mar 3 2006 10:21 pm
Subject: Re: X occasionally spits out dead keys
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Okay, thanks.

 
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 More options Mar 6 2006, 7:13 pm
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From: Doug Laidlaw <laidl...@dougshost.invalid>
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:13:57 +1100
Local: Mon, Mar 6 2006 7:13 pm
Subject: Re: X occasionally spits out dead keys
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's/dead_tilde/asciitilde/g;s/dead_\(double\)*//g;s/belowdot//g;s/acute/apos trophe/g;s/circumflex/asciicircum/g'

> | xmodmap -

> Notice that it is just one long command line (cross your fingers :-)

>> 2) Prevent it from ever happening?

> Dead keys are configured in XF86Config or dynamically via xmodmap or
> XKB. In your case I guess KDE is configuring your keyboard to use dead
> keys. Ther is a keyboard map configuration tool somwhere in the KDE
> main menu.

> --- Casantos

There are "Keyboard layout" and "Keyboard Shortcuts" in the KDE ->
Accessibility sub-menu.

Doug.
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tax it out of existence?
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