On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 06:46:36 -0700 Marc MERLIN <marc_...@merlins.org> said:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 03:55:13PM +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > > > > > So, you can type e, then you type right alt + e, and get é, and when you > > > release right alt, do you get e again? > > > > i never have used this... i just use compose sequences. > > > > milti_key + e + ' = é :) awesome thing is it works for just about > > everything. milti + o + " = ö, multi + t + m = ™, multi + ( + c = © ... > > > > it saves having weird kbd setups... :) > > Right, but if you're going to try and tell me that I should stop using > the way I've been typing for 20 years, you're not going to win :) just saying... works fine for me... standard french layout doesn't do alt+e = é ... i can only imagine the xkb settings e configures somehow conflict with your custom modmap stuff and you then need to do it entirely yourself. check "do not apply any keyboard settings ever" and then entirely do everything via custom xmodmap files and so on. so either go via the gui ... or go via your custom config files etc. - but not both as they likely conflict. i never use modmap files. i used to to make caps == multi key for compose. i just use the gui config in e. > For what it's worth, my custom key mapping is faster than the default > way, which is why I use it. > If you only sometimes have to type é, no big deal, but if you have to > type it multiple times per line, the compose way is ridiculously time > consuming, which is why I don't use it. > > Either way, I'm back to e 0.18.8, which is the last E that works for me > :-/ > I have a slghtly newer one at work, and it's terrible with google chrome > each time I try to rip out a tab from google chrome, it gets stuck to my > mouse pointer and it's very hard to "re-deposit" as a standalone window. the window keeps following your mouse even though you released the mouse button? > Kind of sad that upgrading e has been so painful each time I've tried > :-/ trust me. chromium has also had very painful points. especially the move to aurora - lots of stuff broke. input methods didn't work for maybe 1-2 years... all of that disappeared... the "gtk theme mimicking" still looks like junk ... it was decent until aurora... chromium would literally hard-lock/deadlock itself when displaying tooltips - beats me why, both in e and in gnome for aaaages. but it was an internal deadlock and no app should deadlock just due to some ordering of events due to how a wm may or may not be managing windows. still no idea why. it's stopped... but it should never have happened. welcome to the software world where everyone creates pain and it's worse when developers don't test together. > (and yes of course it works for you Raster, otherwise you wouldn't be > releasing those builds :) ). i am actually not releasing those builds... -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
