(K)ubuntu and US intl keyboard, does not work anymore

(K)ubuntu and US intl keyboard, does not work anymore

[Uwe Brauer]

Hi

Usually I write non ascii text, such as latin1 or hebrew with quail,
however sometimes I also use the keyboard layout as provided by Kubuntu.
(That is not very recommenable for hebrew since C-s would give C-ד.

However for latin-1 it is ok, till recently I must say.

Now when I have us/intl activated and press the key:
It's shift+ the key two keys to the right of L
then I obtain

<dead-diaeresis> is undefined

So pressing that key and say a does not result in ä

Xev tells me
KeyPress event, serial 39, synthetic, NO, window 0x5a0001
state 0x2001, keycode 0 (keysym 0xa8, diarersis), same_screen Yes
XMBLookupstring gives 2 bytel (c2 a8) "¨"

This is not strictly a GNU emacs question, but if somebody know about it
I would be grateful.

Thanks

Uwe Brauer 

Re: (K)ubuntu and US intl keyboard, does not work anymore

[Óscar Fuentes]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

> Usually I write non ascii text, such as latin1 or hebrew with quail,
> however sometimes I also use the keyboard layout as provided by Kubuntu.
> (That is not very recommenable for hebrew since C-s would give C-ד.
>
> However for latin-1 it is ok, till recently I must say.
>
> Now when I have us/intl activated and press the key:
> It's shift+ the key two keys to the right of L
> then I obtain
>
> <dead-diaeresis> is undefined
>
> So pressing that key and say a does not result in ä
>
> Xev tells me
> KeyPress event, serial 39, synthetic, NO, window 0x5a0001
> state 0x2001, keycode 0 (keysym 0xa8, diarersis), same_screen Yes
> XMBLookupstring gives 2 bytel (c2 a8) "¨"
>
> This is not strictly a GNU emacs question, but if somebody know about it
> I would be grateful.

I'm using the Kubuntu 17.04 distribution, with "US intl with dead keys"
keyboard layout, but with the Awesome window manager instead. With a
freshly compiled emacs, ä etc works fine.

$ setxkbmap -query
rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     us_intl
options:    lv3:ralt_switch

Re: (K)ubuntu and US intl keyboard, does not work anymore

[Uwe Brauer]

    > Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

    > I'm using the Kubuntu 17.04 distribution, with "US intl with dead keys"
    > keyboard layout, but with the Awesome window manager instead. With a
    > freshly compiled emacs, ä etc works fine.

    > $ setxkbmap -query
    > rules:      evdev
    > model:      pc105
    > layout:     us_intl
    > options:    lv3:ralt_switch


Thanks, very strange I have
setxkbmap -query
rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     us,us
variant:    ,intl

So  ä does not work in emacs, nor in konsole nor in thunderbird, but in
xterm  and in LibreOffice.

Very very odd

[SOLVED sort of] (was: (K)ubuntu and US intl keyboard, does not work anymore)

[Uwe Brauer]

    > Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

    > I'm using the Kubuntu 17.04 distribution, with "US intl with dead keys"
    > keyboard layout, but with the Awesome window manager instead. With a
    > freshly compiled emacs, ä etc works fine.

    > $ setxkbmap -query
    > rules:      evdev
    > model:      pc105
    > layout:     us_intl
    > options:    lv3:ralt_switch

I just found out about
https://bugs.launchpad.net/emacs-snapshot/+bug/1251176
for me the solution

(require 'iso-transl)
worked while

launch emacs with "XMODIFIERS='' emacs"

Did not but maybe I misunderstood that advice.

[SOLVED really] (was: (K)ubuntu and US intl keyboard, does not work anymore)

[Uwe Brauer]

    > Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

    > I'm using the Kubuntu 17.04 distribution, with "US intl with dead keys"
    > keyboard layout, but with the Awesome window manager instead. With a
    > freshly compiled emacs, ä etc works fine.

    > $ setxkbmap -query
    > rules:      evdev
    > model:      pc105
    > layout:     us_intl
    > options:    lv3:ralt_switch

Thanks to https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DeadKeys
the best solution was

Disable input methods globally if you don’t use them (this won’t prevent
e.g. the XKB-set Compose key from working), by adding this line to your
~/.xinputrc:

  run_im none

And everything is fine again.

Uwe Brauer