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* No on-screen response to keypress until press spacebar
@ 2004-01-26 7:37 fergus
2004-01-26 10:38 ` Alexander Gottwald
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: fergus @ 2004-01-26 7:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin, cygwin-xfree; +Cc: fergus
Currently experiencing a weird problem in Cygwin on W2000:
In a rxvt window, both " and ' behave in the same way: pressing either key
results in nothing on the screen, but pressing either key followed by
<space> results in the expected ' or " appearing, without the space.
Exploring the symptom within an application and using readkey(), it turns
out that ' and " initially return the correct codes 39 and 34 but under
circumstances not understood and therefore not describable these change
to -88 and -76, leading to syntax errors.
There are other strange behaviours, all similar and apparently related to
the above. I know I have seen this or similar symptoms recently described,
but cannot find it. Possibly in a X context, so I'm copying this to the
cygwin-xfree list too. Can anybody please point me to the thread (and, with
any luck, explanation and solution)?
Thank you.
Fergus
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* Re: No on-screen response to keypress until press spacebar
2004-01-26 7:37 No on-screen response to keypress until press spacebar fergus
@ 2004-01-26 10:38 ` Alexander Gottwald
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Alexander Gottwald @ 2004-01-26 10:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin-xfree, fergus; +Cc: cygwin
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote:
> Currently experiencing a weird problem in Cygwin on W2000:
>
> In a rxvt window, both " and ' behave in the same way: pressing either key
> results in nothing on the screen, but pressing either key followed by
> <space> results in the expected ' or " appearing, without the space.
This is the dead-key feature (or problem). Within X11 you can load the keymap
with the "nodeadkeys" option (but then you can only compose keys like à and â
with the compose key).
bye
ago
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