Does this problem happens with all X apps or just the one ?
Does the keyboard behave differently in Windows ?

What keyboard layout do you have set ?
What does the X server say about it (startup or log messages) ?

Regards,
David

-----Original Message-----
From: Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:46:13 +0100
Subject: Re: Eliminating dead keys under X

> Hallöchen!
> 
> Larry Hall (Cygwin X) writes:
> 
> > Torsten Bronger wrote:
> >
> >> I use X applications that run on a remote Linux server on my
> >> local Windows system.  I use PuTTY and Cygwin's X server for
> >> this.  Unfortunately, ~, ', ` etc are dead keys in this
> >> configuration.  How can I change this?
> >
> > Is something like:
> >
> >
> <http://groups.google.com/group/comp.windows.x.i386unix/browse_thread/thread/8a39afff9456db76/6d7
> 2de4d298cf37c?lnk=raot>
> >
> > not the answer
> 
> Partly.  If I pass
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> keycode  21 = acute grave cedilla ogonek cedilla ogonek
> keycode  34 = udiaeresis Udiaeresis diaeresis degree diaeresis degree
> keycode  35 = plus asterisk asciitilde dead_macron asciitilde dead_macron
> keycode  48 = adiaeresis Adiaeresis asciicircum caron asciicircum caron
> keycode  49 = asciicircum degree notsign notsign notsign notsign
> keycode  51 = numbersign apostrophe grave breve grave breve
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> as a file to xmodmap, it works.  However, the hint with XF86Config
> doesn't help me much.  I found no xorg.conf file on my Cygwin
> installation (does this mean that it's broken?) so I created on with
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Section "InputDevice"
>       Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
>       Driver          "kbd"
>       Option          "CoreKeyboard"
>       Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
>       Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
>       Option          "XkbLayout"     "de"
>       Option          "XkbVariant"    "nodeadkeys"
> EndSection
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> in /etc, with a copy in /etc/X11.  However, it didn't have any
> effect.  An .Xmodmap or .xmodmaprc in my home directory had no
> effect either.
> 
> Tschö,
> Torsten.
> 
> -- 
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