Re: [Gtk-osx-users] problem with input source switching

[Vyacheslav Egorov <v e egorov gmail com>]

>
> Yes, you understand correctly. Did you read and understand the Apple
> documentation I pointed you to?
>

I am reading it right now.

> So you're not even using the GTK IM switching facility, you've hacked
> X instead, and you somehow expect this to work cross-platform?

What do you mean by "hacked"? I just added

Option "XkbOptions" "grp:ctrl_shift_toggle"

to my xorg.conf.

--
e.v.e



On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 9:40 PM, John
Ralls<jralls ceridwen fremont ca us> wrote:
>
> On Jul 17, 2009, at 10:54 PM, Vyacheslav Egorov wrote:
>
>>> Because gdk-quartz doesn't magically turn textadept into a Mac
>>> application, and it's the application's job to take key events and
>>> turn them into characters.
>>
>> Lets check that I understand you correctly: so I need to add a special
>> code to TextAdept that will consume cmd+space keypress and switch
>> input source through some Carbon API? That's rather strange. I thought
>> that input sources are handled globally. When I switch input source
>> for one application it affects all other applications as well (so
>> currently if I want to type Russian text I have to go to some other
>> application i.e. Safari, press cmd+space, return to textadept, type
>> some Russian text, then again go to Safari, press cmd+space, go back
>> to textadept and type some English letters, then again...).
>>
>> Thanks for the link. I will take a look at it.
>>
>>> Ctrl-Shift? Really? That's rather unusual.
>>
>> Initially I came from the Win-world (and still do a lot of programming
>> for Windows), so I'm addicted to this shortcut.
>>
>> Under Linux I had to configure X.Org (XKB) to use this shortcut for
>> keyboard layout switching, so (no surprise) it does not work for
>> textadept under Mac OS X.
>
>
>
> Yes, you understand correctly. Did you read and understand the Apple
> documentation I pointed you to?
>
> So you're not even using the GTK IM switching facility, you've hacked
> X instead, and you somehow expect this to work cross-platform?
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
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