From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 64145 invoked by alias); 5 Jun 2018 04:04:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 57183 invoked by uid 89); 5 Jun 2018 04:03:59 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,GIT_PATCH_2,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=States, United, united, guidance X-HELO: mail-wr0-f174.google.com Received: from mail-wr0-f174.google.com (HELO mail-wr0-f174.google.com) (209.85.128.174) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 05 Jun 2018 04:03:57 +0000 Received: by mail-wr0-f174.google.com with SMTP id h10-v6so752231wrq.8 for ; Mon, 04 Jun 2018 21:03:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=XgPN+1ESa/I4mmWHdp0xHYDujOOqAd1X3n4Qr4OIyHs=; b=N+JnZYpkOWDcGlggC/NQxsh+Q4aaGvtMCBNx7/KBMU2XiaZrM/f9/83sxEYh4qiOTJ oJTtk4rOYhOFVDxws6UyJQgN4tuxV+73j1C1+jtRiMEtZjhGh6ZTLuDGOlZQfNQ+Gs4j vqpD3eMzO96PSj6TERS1VWAGrZaaWRFQ4Y1Ixf8qKnL5PFD5JWV9Qg2Q1wTuviV3k3Vr Pg9g94HGuKgjYy2qP+2FqQeBE57NxogoVwOAKw3Ggw2VpatYTL7H6xB6dhUPmUuV//1x D0vQpDb48YRWeZMGzK2gdx9xBb6rv3k1aEbN8xGPIebmFZQyW8wSzkTVJVQHeQd9T6Ny IdGw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALKqPwfUsPm/LQae/REnN+JGC/eTIrZIPcAK5HQGs46Z6JSIcFFuqYDd CHJ8i6ZODqoOd0uar4WhL9E3KXpI X-Google-Smtp-Source: ADUXVKI5J7VsOF3dDcqwfm0NVSAd5ml/80n+SdTmnzl0fjXimuQI9P4UX/zPXN3K8tXu1B83tRMyQA== X-Received: by 2002:adf:a292:: with SMTP id s18-v6mr17273783wra.114.1528171435080; Mon, 04 Jun 2018 21:03:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.49.27] ([217.111.53.18]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id m16-v6sm13173357wro.91.2018.06.04.21.03.53 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 04 Jun 2018 21:03:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: xterm / Windows 10 question To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: <3ba87eb1-538f-d527-7448-59eba13e11b5@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 04:04:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-06/txt/msg00030.txt.bz2 On 6/5/2018 2:51 AM, Matt Nicholas wrote: > Sorry, I left out the word "not" in my last message. > I meant to say: > > I've seen various suggestions online stating that I need to change the > setting under 'Control Panel, Languages' so that the selected language is > "English (United States)", rather than "English (International)". > I did that and it did *not *solve the problem (nor make any discernible > difference). > > Apologies for the omission. > --- Matt > Bottom post on this mailing list > > On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 5:47 PM, Matt Nicholas wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have a question that I hope someone may be able to help me with. >> >> I recently obtained a Dell Precision laptop running Windows 10. >> I installed 64-bit Cygwin, including various packages that are not part of >> the minimal install. >> >> I start Cygwin/X as follows: >> >> (1) open a Cygwin64 Terminal window >> (2) cd /usr/bin >> (3) ./xinit -- -multiwindow & >> >> That works as expected, and creates an initial xterm window. I can then >> start multiple independent xterm windows. >> >> The problem I'm having is that when I type single quote or double quote >> characters in the xterm window, no character appears with the first >> keystroke. >> Typing the character twice, causes the character to appear, but things >> don't work as expected. >> For example, a command like: >> find . -name "*.exe" >> fails to find any files even though there are ".exe" files to be found. >> >> I've seen various suggestions online stating that I need to change the >> setting under 'Control Panel, Languages' so that the selected language is >> "English (United States)", rather than "English (International)". >> I did that and it did solve the problem (nor make any discernible >> difference). >> >> A few other clues: >> (1) The problem does not occur in a Cygwin64 Terminal window. >> (2) I set things up the same way on a Windows 7 PC that I also use, >> and do not experience this problem in xterm windows. It seems that Xterm, and I assume the all X server, is using a different Keyboard layout than Mintty. One with dead-keys. The best explanation I found on keyboard with dead-keys is https://zauner.nllk.net/post/0014-windows-no-dead-keys/ For changing setting for the X system, some guidance is available on: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Keyboard_configuration_in_Xorg >> >> Thanks >> --- Matt Regards Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple