Yesterday I booted the Xubuntu 12.04 i386 Alpha-2 live CD on the Compaq computer described in #1, installed xfce4-xkb-plugin, added the link for that in the top panel, and tried various keyboard layouts, including Maori and USA Alternative International, and observed the same problem - using key combinations which use the AltGr key in combinations or as a dead key do not work in the default terminal program, but do work in xterm and various GUI programs, such as FireFox or GVim.
I did update Xubuntu 12.04 beta-2 after booting it - that was necessary in order to install xfce4-kkb-plugin. ** Description changed: I just installed xfce4-xkb-plugin in order to select various keyboard layout. I soon found out that the AltGr key isn't working properly in xfce4-terminal and pterm. I am running the 64-bit version of xubuntu 11.10 on this computer. + + This also affects 32-bit versions of Xubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 beta-2. For example, select the Maori keyboard layout. This layout enters vowels with macrons like āēīōūĀĒĪŌŪ when the AltGr key is held on. (This does work in Firefox, which I'm using to enter this report, and also in xterm, but also fails in pterm. It does work in AbiWord). Various other layouts use AltGr, for example the US alt-intl layout uses AltGr plus the minus key as a dead key for entering vowels with macrons - those do not work under xfce4-terminal and pterm, but do work in various other apps. These layouts DO work with gvim, which is useful to me. When I try to enter characters with AltGr + vowel in the shell from xfce4-terminal (using the Maori layout), I get little diamonds with questions marks. In vim, I get various strange effects, but no vowels with macrons. This is the 64-bit version of xfce4-terminal: $ file /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.15, stripped Ubuntu version and kernel version DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=11.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=oneiric DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 11.10" Linux compaq 3.0.0-15-generic #26-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 20 17:23:00 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+ cpu MHz : 1000.000 $ apt-show-versions xfce4-terminal xfce4-terminal/oneiric uptodate 0.4.8-1 I don't have a computer available to try the 32-bit version of xubuntu 11.10, unfortunately. BTW my main goal is to enter Hawaiian text, which also uses macrons. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: xfce4-terminal 0.4.8-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-15.26-generic 3.0.13 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Feb 8 10:56:01 2012 InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012) ProcEnviron: - PATH=(custom, user) - LANG=en_US.UTF-8 - SHELL=/bin/bash + PATH=(custom, user) + LANG=en_US.UTF-8 + SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: xfce4-terminal UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-12-09 (61 days ago) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/929054 Title: AltGr key doesn't work properly in xfce4-terminal To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-terminal/+bug/929054/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
