weird keyboard behaviour with symbol ~ in Fluxbox

Raisuli · 2008-03-17 01:58:32

Hi everyone,

this is not an earth shattering problem, just odd. Whenever I try to type the symbol "~" using "AltGr+ *" on a German keyboard I need to hit the key combination twice to get it to work. This does not happen with any other AltGr symbol like @ or €. Nothing seems to be physically wrong with the keyboard, as far as I can tell because it worked fine before I reinstalled Fluxbox yesterday.

Any ideas?

Last edited by Raisuli (2008-03-17 02:00:27)

mutlu_inek · 2008-03-17 10:27:49

What you describe is what is meant to happen when using a keyboard layout with so-called dead keys, used for example for French accents. This has nothing to do with fluxbox, it must have come in with the X.org update of today. I believe this is a bug rather than intended, I have no idea why dead keys should be default. But maybe X.org changed its policy?

In any case, you can easily solve this by editing you /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add 'Option "XkbOptions" "nodeadkeys"' to the appropriate 'Input Device' section.

Alternatively, you could mess with the xkb symbols file directly (which will be broken by the next update, though) and change this key back to its old settings: edit your /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/de and change the third entry of the offending key from what I infer to be "dead_tilde" to "tilde" or "0x100007e" (its unicode equivalent).

Hope this helps.

Last edited by mutlu_inek (2008-03-17 10:28:18)

brebs · 2008-03-17 10:36:41

Sounds similar to this update.

mutlu_inek · 2008-03-17 11:37:56

brebs wrote:

Sounds similar to this update.

That PKGBUILD certainly does nothing silly. I have no idea how that change might have come about. But anyway, it is a pain in the ass that basic config files (and I _strongly_ defend my position that these are config files since I _need_ to alter my keyboard layouts to do my work) are in /etc only. I have no idea why there is no user directory into which X.org looks for local files. Window managers have no such problems. And adding a NoUpgrade path to pacman does not solve the issue given how many keyboard files are provided and how often they are updated. I guess I should file a bug report on freedesktop.org

Raisuli · 2008-03-17 12:46:53

Thanks mutlu_inek and brebs for the quick replies. I had already set my XkbOptions to "no dead keys", but accessing the xkb symbols directly did the trick. Applied the patch, too, just in case.

Last edited by Raisuli (2008-03-17 12:50:17)

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#1 2008-03-17 01:58:32

weird keyboard behaviour with symbol ~ in Fluxbox

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Re: weird keyboard behaviour with symbol ~ in Fluxbox

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Re: weird keyboard behaviour with symbol ~ in Fluxbox

#4 2008-03-17 11:37:56

Re: weird keyboard behaviour with symbol ~ in Fluxbox

#5 2008-03-17 12:46:53

Re: weird keyboard behaviour with symbol ~ in Fluxbox

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