This would be good info: I'd like to know how to turn this /on/... ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bullock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 12:55 AM Subject: Re: [Newbie]Re: Five (or more) chars from single key?
> Sorry to hijack your discussion folks, but since you > seem to know about keymaps ... I have a 'problem' where > 'deadkeys' appears to be turned on for an international > character set, but I would be quite happy with US-ASCII > and not having the deadkeys. > > ( eg. I have to type "" to get ", which is something I > do reasonably frequently to quote strings when > programming ) > > Are any of you able to advise how to turn this feature off? > It was turned on unintentionally when installing Mandrake 8.1 > > (If there is a way to toggle it without leaving X, that would > be nice, since I would occasionally like to type caf� with > the accent, which is my only use for international charsets > at present :-) > > I tried fiddling with some keyboard-looking things in > /etc/X11/XF86Config and /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, but without > result, and have not been able to track down any other relevant > configuration file. > > thanks! > David. > > > On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Jukka Lehti wrote: > > > > > Is it possible > > > > to get more than 4 chars from one key with > > > > XFree4.1? > > > > > > Nope; the X server has a compiled-in limit of four > > > keysyms per keycode. Do > > > you really have a key with more than four symbols > > > engraved on its surface? > > > > Keith, thanks for quick reply, in spite of its content > > :) > > > > Why five symbols: no engraved symbols in keyboard, but > > ISO-8859-15 defines four new Finnish characters and > > two them are scaron (s [s with ^ above it upsidedown > > if the actual symbol is blurred]) and Scaron (S). So I > > have: > > > > keycode 39 = s S scaron Scaron ssharp > > > > The obvious problems is that I can't get ssharp(�) > > when writing German. Moving it to key B would be a bit gross... > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! > > http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Newbie mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie > > -- > ---- > David Bullock - [EMAIL PROTECTED] +61 4 0290 1228 > http://www.lisasoft.com/ (Architect) http://www.auug.org.au/ (President, SA) > http://www.ajug.org.au/sajug/sa.html (Activist) Sun Cert'd Programmer for Java 2 > > "The key ingredients of success are a crystal-clear goal, a realistic attack plan to achieve that goal, and consistent, daily action to reach that goal." > Steve Maguire, "Debugging the Development Process". > > _______________________________________________ > Newbie mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
