Re: xterm / Windows 10 question

[Matt Nicholas <mattdn at gmail dot com>]

Hi Jon,

That was the clue I needed.  Thanks!

Here are the relevant lines from my */var/log/xwin/XWin.0.log*:

[494293.296] (--) Windows keyboard layout: "00020409" (00020409) "United
States-International", type 7
[494293.296] (--) Found matching XKB configuration "English
(USA,International)"
[494293.296] (--) Model = "pc105" Layout = "us_intl" Variant = "none"
Options = "none"
[494293.296] Rules = "base" Model = "pc105" Layout = "us_intl" Variant =
"none" Options = "none"

I'm not sure why the X server starts with *Layout = "us_intl"*, because if
I look in *Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > Language* it says the
language is *English (United States)*.

However, I found that if I enter the command "*setxkbmap us*" in an xterm
window it solves the problem (i.e., single quote and double quote
characters are no longer dead keys).

I'm still not sure how best to configure it so that the X server starts
with "us" instead of "us_intl" automatically, but that's a minor issue in
any case -- entering the "setxkbmap us" command is easy enough.
(I can probably put the "setxkbmap us" command in ".bash_profile", if I
don't find a more appropriate place.)

Best Regards,
--- Matt






On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 1:17 PM, Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
wrote:

> On 05/06/2018 18:19, Matt Nicholas wrote:
>
>> Hi David,
>> Thanks for the suggestion.  Unfortunately, toggling the input method does
>> not make a difference in an xterm window.  (It does, by the way, have the
>> effect you mention in a Cygwin64 terminal window.)
>>
>
> The X server does not use the Windows input method, but tries to setup an
> appropriate X keyboard configuration based on the Windows keyboard layout
> selected when it starts up.
>
> I suspect that an unexpected keyboard configuration is being used, if it
> has dead keys when you don't want them.
>
> Can you show /var/log/XWin.0.log, or at least the portion of that
> describing what keyboard configuration is being selected, e.g.:
>
> [1236607.031] (--) Windows keyboard layout: "00000809" (00000809) "United
>> Kingdom", type 4
>> [1236607.031] (--) Found matching XKB configuration "English (United
>> Kingdom)"
>> [1236607.031] (--) Model = "pc105" Layout = "gb" Variant = "none" Options
>> = "none"
>>
>
> --- Matt
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 7:21 PM, David Billinghurst <dbcygwin@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> On 2018-06-05 10:47, Matt Nicholas wrote:
>>>
>>> I recently obtained a Dell Precision laptop running Windows 10.
>>>
>>>> I installed 64-bit Cygwin, including various packages that are not part
>>>> of
>>>> the minimal install.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> The problem I'm having is that when I type single quote or double quote
>>>
>>>> characters in the xterm window, no character appears with the first
>>>> keystroke.
>>>>
>>>> This may be an issue with the input method configured for the keyboard.
>>> You can toggle this with  <Windows Key>+<space>.  Many Dell machines are
>>> configured to use the US-international keyboard that encodes "<char> to
>>> an
>>> umlaut, so "e to ë and so on.  As a monlingual Aussie I find the plain
>>> "US
>>> Keyboard" has fewer surprises.
>>>
>>
>

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