noj...@gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br wrote:
> 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

> | 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