Re: xterm / Windows 10 question

[Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>]

On 05/06/2018 18:19, Matt Nicholas wrote:
> Hi David,
> Thanks for the suggestion.  Unfortunately, toggling the input method does
> not make a difference in an xterm window.  (It does, by the way, have the
> effect you mention in a Cygwin64 terminal window.)

The X server does not use the Windows input method, but tries to setup 
an appropriate X keyboard configuration based on the Windows keyboard 
layout selected when it starts up.

I suspect that an unexpected keyboard configuration is being used, if it 
has dead keys when you don't want them.

Can you show /var/log/XWin.0.log, or at least the portion of that 
describing what keyboard configuration is being selected, e.g.:

> [1236607.031] (--) Windows keyboard layout: "00000809" (00000809) "United Kingdom", type 4
> [1236607.031] (--) Found matching XKB configuration "English (United Kingdom)"
> [1236607.031] (--) Model = "pc105" Layout = "gb" Variant = "none" Options = "none"

> --- Matt
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 7:21 PM, David Billinghurst <dbcygwin@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 2018-06-05 10:47, Matt Nicholas wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>> This may be an issue with the input method configured for the keyboard.
>> You can toggle this with  <Windows Key>+<space>.  Many Dell machines are
>> configured to use the US-international keyboard that encodes "<char> to an
>> umlaut, so "e to ë and so on.  As a monlingual Aussie I find the plain "US
>> Keyboard" has fewer surprises.


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