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I am trying to type "~" in xterm but it doesn't show. When I type it in the browser, I need to hit "R_ALT"+"*", followed by a SPACE to get it to show (German keyboard). Does anyone know how to fix this?
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Well, tilde can also be used in combination with other characters like for example ~ and e which would result in ẽ. So in order to get the tilde character itself I simply have to hit that key twice. Are you sure that this doesn't work for you in your xterm?
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What does your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-keyboard.conf look like?
$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-keyboard.conf
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "keyboard"
MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
Option "XkbLayout" "de"
Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection
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The button which is mostly used to call the mouse’s right button menu (between the right ‘Windows’ button and right Ctrl), in Xterm calls a tilde – with German layout too, at least at me. Maybe you can get accustomed to it.
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The button which is mostly used to call the mouse’s right button menu (between the right ‘Windows’ button and right Ctrl), in Xterm calls a tilde – with German layout too, at least at me. Maybe you can get accustomed to it.
Hey that's cool, I didn't know about that trick yet. It seems to work just fine for my preferred terminal rxvt-unicode too.
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The button which is mostly used to call the mouse’s right button menu (between the right ‘Windows’ button and right Ctrl), in Xterm calls a tilde – with German layout too, at least at me. Maybe you can get accustomed to it.
Not necessarily so. I for instance did set up my keyboard for three languages (german, russian, indic) which are switched by this menu toggle key:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Keyboard Defaults"
MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "de,ru(winkeys),in"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:menu_toggle"
EndSection
Your tilde problem may be caused by the selection of "XkbModel". It works o.k. here using AltGr+"+" followed by a space in all terminals (mainly urxvt and xterm).
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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "IntegratedKeyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "acer_laptop" # "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "de,us,es,jp"
# Option "XkbVariant" "altgr-intl,qwerty"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Note I have that problem in xterm and urxvt, but not for example in firefox. Tilde (~) simply won't print in xterm and urxvt. I also noticed now that I switched from awesome to dwm, that when I hit ALT+"." in xterm I get a weird character instead of the usual last argument of the last command. However, in urxvt the ALT+"." works fine. I am a little lost as to how to troubleshoot these key assignment issues... Any ideas or pointers are most welcome!
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