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Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.8.2-2
Severity: normal
With xmodmap, I defined:
keycode 100 = Left 0x0001
so that when I press Shift+Left, I get a Ctrl-A character.
Indeed xev says:
KeyPress event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x5800001,
root 0x25, subw 0x0, time 2207921486, (89,65), root:(348,250),
state 0x1, keycode 75 (keysym 0x1, (no name)), same_screen YES,
^^^^^^^^^^
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: ""
and this works without any problem in xterm, rxvt, mlterm and emacs.
But gnome-terminal does nothing.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii gnome-control-center 1:2.8.2-3 The GNOME Control Center for GNOME
ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.8.1-2 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgconf2-4 2.8.1-5 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.4.2-2 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.4-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome2-0 2.8.1-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomeui-0 2.8.1-3 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.4-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii liborbit2 1:2.12.1-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libstartup-notification0 0.8-1 library for program launch feedbac
ii libvte4 1:0.11.12-1 Terminal emulator widget for GTK+
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12 X Window System protocol client li
ii scrollkeeper 0.3.14-9.1 A free electronic cataloging syste
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
-- no debconf information
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On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 08:48:04PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
Hi Vincent!
> Yes, the behavior has changed[*]: the other GTK apps now have the same
> behavior as gnome-terminal.
I've spent a few hours more looking at this. The reason it doesn't work
is that gtk's gdk_keyval_to_unicode() function returns 0 for
control/non-printing characters.
However, salvation is at hand! There is a mechanism to encode a Unicode
character directly in an X keysym, this is done by a script visible at
http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/svn/xorg-x11/trunk/app/xterm/unicode/convmap.pl.
The relevant part is: "So to get Unicode character U+ABCD you can
directly use keysym 0x1000abcd."
gdk_keyval_to_unicode() also supports this. I've tried mapping to
0x1000001 and this successfully passes a ^A in xterm, rxvt and GTK apps.
Since this seems to be the appropriate way of doing it, I'm closing this
bug.
Vince
--
Vincent Ho
"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house
of cards. Checkmate."
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