Re: [gedit-list] xmodmap, German umlaut, diaeresis

[Norbert Beckmann <nb informatik uni-bremen de>]

Hi Paolo,

it does work now completely in ubuntu (guest in VirtualBox), except in
gnome-terminal, where it probably should not.
For the ubuntu-in-VirtualBox case I had to modify my "setuml" command
(which finally execs xmodmap) to know two cases: host system has or has
not already set the umlaut xmodmap setting.
I probably confused things while testing. Sorry.

The issue stays in Solaris 11.1 (and was an issue in earlier Solaris
versions too).
But as I newly found out, it curiously for some applications depends
on the kind of the call! (?)

The umlaut setting in any case works in:
firefox, thunderbird, OpenOffice, nautilus, ...

The umlaut setting works if the application is called from the menu or
from a panel, but not if it is called from a terminal for:
gedit, gnome-screenshot, ...

The umlaut setting does not work at all (which is probably ok) for:
gnome-terminal, xterm.

Thanks

Norbert

On 03/27/14 12:17, Pander wrote:
> On 2014-03-27 09:59, Paolo Borelli wrote:
> > Hi Norbert,
> >
> >      is this specific to gedit or does it affect all GTK+ applications
> > (e.g. nautilus or gnome-terminal)?
> >
> > I am not familiar with xmodmap myself, but I would look for information
> > about xmodmap and gtk in general.
> For exhaustive information on entering characters which are not on your
> keyboard, see also
> http://hellebaard.nl/publicaties/book/book-compose-key-sequence-reference-guide-2012/
>
> > Ciao,
> >
> >       Paolo
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:21 AM, Norbert Beckmann
> > <nb informatik uni-bremen de <mailto:nb informatik uni-bremen de>> wrote:
> >
> >      Hello all.
> >
> >      I want to type German umlauts using the Meta keys on a US keyboard
> >      (Sun Type 7).
> >      I created an xmodmap file "umlauts" with the following content:
> >      ------------------------------__----------
> >      keysym Meta_L = Mode_switch Mode_switch
> >      keysym Meta_R = Mode_switch Mode_switch
> >
> >      keysym a = a A adiaeresis Adiaeresis
> >      keysym e = e E ediaeresis Ediaeresis
> >      keysym i = i I idiaeresis Idiaeresis
> >      keysym o = o O odiaeresis Odiaeresis
> >      keysym u = u U udiaeresis Udiaeresis
> >      keysym y = y Y ydiaeresis Y
> >      keysym s = s S ssharp NoSymbol
> >
> >      ! for recognition of the umlaut setting with a grep on "xmodmap -pke":
> >      keycode 250 = U M L 1
> >      ------------------------------__----------
> >      The call "xmodmap umlauts" makes German umlauts available
> >      instantaneously in
> >      OpenOffice, Firefox, and other applications, but not in gedit.
> >
> >      Systems:
> >      Oracle Solaris 11.1 with gedit 2.30.4 running
> >      ubuntu 12.04 LTS (in VirtualBox) with gedit 3.4.1 running
> >      both concerned.
> >
> >      Question:
> >      How can I accomplish gedit accept these xmodmap settings?
> >
> >      Btw., copying umlauts into gedit (e.g. from Firefox) is possible.
> >
> >      Any help appreciated
> >
> >      Norbert
> >
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