* WinCompose vs. Cygwin/X
@ 2017-01-10 13:29 Michael Schaap
2017-01-11 8:51 ` Csaba Raduly
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From: Michael Schaap @ 2017-01-10 13:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
I recently discovered WinCompose
<https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose>, a Windows port of XCompose,
and fell in love with it.
Unfortunately, it doesn't play nice with Cygwin/X, it seems. WinCompose
eats the key sequences, and neither the original keys nor the intended
character(s) ever reach X.
Of course, Cygwin/X has XCompose. But because of the above, you can't
use the same compose key in WinCompose and XCompose. So I keep using
the wrong compose key. (gvim is the worst, since I use both the Windows
and X versions.)
Does any of you have experience with this and know a better way to deal
with this?
Potential solutions might be to tell Cygwin/X to use Windows keyboard
handling instead of its own keyboard drivers (but I don't think that's
possible), or to tell WinCompose to disable itself in windows owned by
the X server (and that doesn't seem possible either).
(I know mintty has its own compose functionality now, but that doesn't
help. I spend a lot of my time in terminal windows, but not all. :)
Thanks in advance,
â Michael
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* Re: WinCompose vs. Cygwin/X
2017-01-10 13:29 WinCompose vs. Cygwin/X Michael Schaap
@ 2017-01-11 8:51 ` Csaba Raduly
2017-01-11 22:16 ` Michael Schaap
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From: Csaba Raduly @ 2017-01-11 8:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi Michael,
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Michael Schaap wrote:
> I recently discovered WinCompose <https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose>,
> a Windows port of XCompose, and fell in love with it.
>
> Unfortunately, it doesn't play nice with Cygwin/X, it seems.
(snip various scenarios and potential solutions)
Have you tried opening an issue in the WinCompose issue tracker? They
might be able to code a workaround.
Csaba
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* Re: WinCompose vs. Cygwin/X
2017-01-11 8:51 ` Csaba Raduly
@ 2017-01-11 22:16 ` Michael Schaap
2017-01-16 14:49 ` Jon Turney
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From: Michael Schaap @ 2017-01-11 22:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 11-Jan-17 9:51, Csaba Raduly wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Michael Schaap wrote:
>> I recently discovered WinCompose <https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose>,
>> a Windows port of XCompose, and fell in love with it.
>>
>> Unfortunately, it doesn't play nice with Cygwin/X, it seems.
> (snip various scenarios and potential solutions)
>
> Have you tried opening an issue in the WinCompose issue tracker? They
> might be able to code a workaround.
Somebody beat me to it. Unfortunately with not much result.
https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose/issues/132
- Michael
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* Re: WinCompose vs. Cygwin/X
2017-01-11 22:16 ` Michael Schaap
@ 2017-01-16 14:49 ` Jon Turney
2017-06-24 22:36 ` Michael Schaap (lists)
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From: Jon Turney @ 2017-01-16 14:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin; +Cc: Michael Schaap
On 11/01/2017 22:16, Michael Schaap wrote:
> On 11-Jan-17 9:51, Csaba Raduly wrote:
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Michael Schaap wrote:
>>> I recently discovered WinCompose
>>> <https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose>,
>>> a Windows port of XCompose, and fell in love with it.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, it doesn't play nice with Cygwin/X, it seems.
>> (snip various scenarios and potential solutions)
Thanks for reporting this issue.
Unfortunately, this is a complex problem to solve.
At the protocol level, X clients really are being told about
keypress/release events (i.e. Windows WM_KEYDOWN/WM_KEYUP messages map
in some way to X11 KeyPress/KeyRelease events)
Now, there is a possible mechanism to tell X clients about characters,
like the WM_CHAR messages being sent by WinCompose, which is XIM, and
there was some long-ago work in that area [1], but it's not included in
current X servers.
>> Have you tried opening an issue in the WinCompose issue tracker? They
>> might be able to code a workaround.
> Somebody beat me to it. Unfortunately with not much result.
> https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose/issues/132
In the short term, some sort of feature in WinCompose where it turns
itself off for specified windows might be easier.
[1] https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-01/msg00066.html
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* Re: WinCompose vs. Cygwin/X
2017-01-16 14:49 ` Jon Turney
@ 2017-06-24 22:36 ` Michael Schaap (lists)
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From: Michael Schaap (lists) @ 2017-06-24 22:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jon Turney; +Cc: The Cygwin Mailing List
On 16 January 2017 at 15:49, Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
> On 11/01/2017 22:16, Michael Schaap wrote:
>>
>> On 11-Jan-17 9:51, Csaba Raduly wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Michael,
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Michael Schaap wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I recently discovered WinCompose
>>>> <https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose>,
>>>> a Windows port of XCompose, and fell in love with it.
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, it doesn't play nice with Cygwin/X, it seems.
>>>
(snip)
> In the short term, some sort of feature in WinCompose where it turns itself
> off for specified windows might be easier.
Just a quick note that the latest release of WinCompose (0,7,7) does
exactly that: it turns itself off for windows owned by XWin.exe.
So now WinCompose and XCompose do play nice together.
- Michael
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