Re: Keyboard map screwed up after launching xemacs
Andreas Eibach wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: Forgive my ignorance about german keyboard usage, but is the tilde character used in some kind of composition sequence which isn't working anymore? Or do you just want to type lots of tildes? (In case that it went down the drain: One is enough,: ~ = - $HOME :) Ok, it seems I can reproduce this by telling Windows I have a german keyboard (although starting the X server with '-xkblayout de' doesn't seem to be sufficient, which is somewhat mysterious) and it only affects the xemacs window. Great! Thanks for still bearing with me. A workaround seems to be to do 'setxkbmap de' before starting xemacs. This and other reported problems make me thing something not quite right about the way we are initializing XKB for an autodetected keyboard layout (probably related to MPX changes in the X server), which needs more investigation This behaviour should be fixed in xorg-server 1.5.3-5. Feedback welcomed. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Keyboard map screwed up after launching xemacs
Jon TURNEY wrote: Andreas Eibach wrote: Hi, when I have X running and start off (latest) xemacs from the command line, my German keyboard is non-existing. WTF? Even the important tilde character can't be typed anymore. Not only until I quit xemacs, my keymap in xterm works again as expected. Are you saying the the keymap for all X windows is changed while xemacs is running? Or does it only affect the Xemacs window? Forgive my ignorance about german keyboard usage, but is the tilde character used in some kind of composition sequence which isn't working anymore? Or do you just want to type lots of tildes? Ok, it seems I can reproduce this by telling Windows I have a german keyboard (although starting the X server with '-xkblayout de' doesn't seem to be sufficient, which is somewhat mysterious) and it only affects the xemacs window. Andreas Eibach wrote: Anyway to fix this? A workaround seems to be to do 'setxkbmap de' before starting xemacs. This and other reported problems make me thing something not quite right about the way we are initializing XKB for an autodetected keyboard layout (probably related to MPX changes in the X server), which needs more investigation -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Keyboard map screwed up after launching xemacs
- Original Message - From: Jon TURNEY [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 5:29 PM Subject: Re: Keyboard map screwed up after launching xemacs Jon TURNEY wrote: Forgive my ignorance about german keyboard usage, but is the tilde character used in some kind of composition sequence which isn't working anymore? Or do you just want to type lots of tildes? (In case that it went down the drain: One is enough,: ~ = - $HOME :) Ok, it seems I can reproduce this by telling Windows I have a german keyboard (although starting the X server with '-xkblayout de' doesn't seem to be sufficient, which is somewhat mysterious) and it only affects the xemacs window. Great! Thanks for still bearing with me. A workaround seems to be to do 'setxkbmap de' before starting xemacs. This and other reported problems make me thing something not quite right about the way we are initializing XKB for an autodetected keyboard layout (probably related to MPX changes in the X server), which needs more investigation I fully agree. -Andreas -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Keyboard map screwed up after launching xemacs
Andreas Eibach wrote: Hi, when I have X running and start off (latest) xemacs from the command line, my German keyboard is non-existing. WTF? Even the important tilde character can't be typed anymore. Not only until I quit xemacs, my keymap in xterm works again as expected. Are you saying the the keymap for all X windows is changed while xemacs is running? Or does it only affect the Xemacs window? Forgive my ignorance about german keyboard usage, but is the tilde character used in some kind of composition sequence which isn't working anymore? Or do you just want to type lots of tildes? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Keyboard map screwed up after launching xemacs
FYI tilde is AltGr++ where AltGr is right Alt On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Jon TURNEY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Eibach wrote: Hi, when I have X running and start off (latest) xemacs from the command line, my German keyboard is non-existing. WTF? Even the important tilde character can't be typed anymore. Not only until I quit xemacs, my keymap in xterm works again as expected. Are you saying the the keymap for all X windows is changed while xemacs is running? Or does it only affect the Xemacs window? Forgive my ignorance about german keyboard usage, but is the tilde character used in some kind of composition sequence which isn't working anymore? Or do you just want to type lots of tildes? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/ -- Regards, -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
