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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix, comp.windows.x.kde
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
khym.cha...@gmail.com wrote: You can save the display keyboard map to a with > 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 xmodmap -pke | fgrep -i dead > file_name After that you can edit the file, change the dead keys to "live" ones xmodmap file_name Or you can run xmodmap -pke | sed 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 You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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