Re: [PLUG] deadkeys

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

Kevin Carruthers wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 18:37, Art Alexion wrote:
>  
>
> > Jeff's email on accented characters reminded me of this problem.  When I 
> > installed this distro, I decided to use the deadkeys keyboard option 
> > since I could never get linux to use the alt+(ansi code on num pad) that 
> > works for me in windows and was supposed to work in Linux also.  (I use 
> > the em dash, alt+0151, and the section mark, alt+0168, a lot.  Deadkeys 
> > don't help with this anyway.  I also use é, alt+0233, which -- as you 
> > can see -- deadkeys does well.)
> >
> > Well, it turns out that I use single ' and double ¨ quotes more than I 
> > use the accented characters made easier with deadkeys, and it is getting 
> > to be a pain -- especially switching from this computer to others that 
> > don't require tricks to enter tildes and quotes.  Another problem is 
> > that the double quotes entered by <shift+quote, space> (¨) aren't 
> > recognized as ascii quotes by some programs, and OpenOffice's pub quotes 
> > features is so incompatible that I can't enter double quotes at all in 
> > my word processing -- have to use two single quotes -- unacceptable.
> >
> > Problem is, I can't figure out how to turn them off.
> >
> > Machine is Red Hat 7.3.  Anyone have any ideas?
> >    
>
> Art,
>
> I think you are not getting the double quote at all but the umlaut, the
> space being the augmented character.  It sounds like you are not getting
> AltGr.  
>
> Is AltGr (ModeShift) turned on in XF86Config?
>  
I don't think so (though I don't know what AltGr is).  Here is the 
keyboard section

   # **********************************************************************
   # Keyboard section
   # **********************************************************************

   Section "Keyboard"
       Protocol    "Standard"

       AutoRepeat  500 5

   # when using XQUEUE, comment out the above line, and uncomment the
   # following line
       # Protocol   "Xqueue"

   # Let the server do the NumLock processing.  This should only be
   # required when using pre-R6 clients
       # ServerNumLock

   # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
       # Xleds      1 2 3

   # To set the LeftAlt to Meta, RightAlt key to ModeShift,
   # RightCtl key to Compose, and ScrollLock key to ModeLock:

       LeftAlt         Meta
       RightAlt        Meta
       ScrollLock      Compose
       RightCtl        Control

   # To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
   #    XkbDisable

   # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
   # lines below (which are the defaults).  For example, for a non-U.S.
   # keyboard, you will probably want to use:
   #    XkbModel    "pc102"
   # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
   #    XkbModel    "microsoft"
   #
   # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
   # For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
   #    XkbLayout   "de"
   # or:
   #    XkbLayout   "de"
   #    XkbVariant  "nodeadkeys"
   #
   # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
   # control keys, use:
   #    XkbOptions  "ctrl:swapcaps"
   #
   # If you'd like to disable the capslock key, use:
   #    XkbOptions  "ctrl:nocaps"


        XkbRules    "xfree86"
        XkbModel    "logiinetnav"
        XkbLayout   "us_intl"    
        XkbVariant  "basic"
        #XkbOptions  ""
   EndSection

> What does xmodmap show for Mod1?
>  
Alt_L (0x40)

> On my 'us w/ dead keys' keymap (probably the same) the double quote  is
> mapped to shift-AltGr-'"':
>
> bash$ xmodmap -pk | grep quotedbl
> 48         0xfe51 (dead_acute)     0xfe57 (dead_diaeresis) 0x0027
> (apostrophe)     0x0022 (quotedbl)
>
>  
Kevin, I understand the the foregoing three line should be executed in 
bash, but I am lost as to what AltGr is (which I should probably 
understand before I do anything.

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