strange kbd behaviour in Eterm

Sebastien Chassot seba.bsd at sebsd.net
Sat Sep 17 08:29:14 PDT 2005


Hello,

I'm experiencing strange behaviour with my keyboard's accent and can't
figure out where it's coming from.

It's about circumflex/grave accents "^`" with a fr_CH.ISO8859-1 (swiss
french) keyboard. 

I'm using few Eterm window a time but accents work only in one window.
Where it became strange it's that the working window is changing (from
one minute to another without rebooting). 

One time it happened pasting "`" in another Eterm, but I'm unable to
reproduce. Another time all Eterm instances was working...

I've never had any problem with other X application, wmaker just work
fine.



$uname -a 
FreeBSD dell.local.net 5.4-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p2 #1: Mon Jun
27 14:33:14 CEST 2005


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$ Eterm --version
Eterm 0.9.3
Copyright (c) 1997-2004, Michael Jennings (mej at eterm.org) 

Build info:
    Built on Mon Apr  4 13:52:11 UTC 2005
    actions.c 1.27 2004/01/11 22:10:28 mej
    buttons.c 1.44 2004/06/25 21:52:00 mej
    command.c 1.100 2004/03/11 13:59:44 mej
    draw.c 1.15 2004/01/11 22:10:29 mej
    e.c 1.25 2004/01/11 22:10:29 mej
    events.c 1.64 2004/11/03 23:18:45 mej
    font.c 1.43 2004/01/11 22:10:29 mej
    grkelot.c 1.6 2002/06/08 15:44:06 mej
    main.c 1.12 2004/01/11 22:10:29 mej
    menus.c 1.63 2004/06/25 21:52:00 mej
    misc.c 1.25 2004/01/11 22:10:29 mej
    netdisp.c 1.8 2003/06/10 16:20:01 mej
    options.c 1.133 2004/04/20 17:50:14 mej
    pixmap.c 1.103 2004/07/14 20:18:29 mej
    screen.c 1.77 2004/01/20 02:04:04 mej
    scrollbar.c 1.48 2004/06/25 21:52:00 mej
    startup.c 1.48 2004/11/07 20:38:20 mej
    system.c 1.21 2004/01/11 22:10:29 mej
    term.c 1.104 2004/07/14 20:18:30 mej
    timer.c 1.14 2004/01/11 22:10:29 mej
    utmp.c 1.18 2004/01/11 22:10:29 mej
    windows.c 1.67 2004/06/25 21:52:00 mej

Debugging configuration:  DEBUG=4 +DEBUG_SCREEN +DEBUG_CMD +DEBUG_TTY
+DEBUG_SELECTION +DEBUG_UTMP +DEBUG_OPTIONS
+DEB                                                              
UG_IMLIB +DEBUG_PIXMAP +DEBUG_EVENTS +DEBUG_X11 +DEBUG_SCROLLBAR
+DEBUG_MENU +DEBUG_TTYMODE +DEBUG_COLORS

Compile-time toggles:  -PROFILE -PROFILE_SCREEN -PROFILE_X_EVENTS
-COUNT_X_EVENTS +OPTIMIZE_HACKS +PIXMAP_SUPPORT
+PIX                                                              
MAP_OFFSET +BACKGROUND_CYCLING_SUPPORT +USE_EFFECTS -NO_CURSORCOLOR
-NO_BOLDUNDERLINE -NO_BOLDFONT
-NO_SECONDARY_SCREE                                                              
N -FORCE_CLEAR_CHARS -PREFER_24BIT -OFFIX_DND +BORDER_WIDTH_OPTION
-NO_DELETE_KEY +FORCE_BACKSPACE -FORCE_DELETE
+HOTK                                                              
EY_CTRL -HOTKEY_META -LINUX_KEYS +KEYSYM_ATTRIBUTE +XIM
-UNSHIFTED_SCROLLKEYS -NO_SCROLLBAR_REPORT +CUTCHAR_OPTION
-MO                                                              
USE_REPORT_DOUBLECLICK +XTERM_SCROLLBAR +MOTIF_SCROLLBAR +NEXT_SCROLLBAR
+SCROLLBAR_BUTTON_CONTINUAL_SCROLLING
+META8_                                                              
OPTION -GREEK_SUPPORT +MULTI_CHARSET -DISPLAY_IS_IP
-ENABLE_DISPLAY_ANSWER -NO_VT100_ANS +XTERM_COLOR_CHANGE
-DEFINE_X                                                              
TERM_COLOR -NO_MAPALERT +MAPALERT_OPTION +UTMP_SUPPORT -HAVE_SAVED_UIDS
+ALLOW_BACKQUOTE_EXEC -WARN_OLDER +ESCREEN

Compile-time definitions:
 PATH_ENV="ETERMPATH"
 REFRESH_PERIOD=2
 PRINTPIPE="lp"
 KS_DELETE="^[[3~"
 SAVELINES=256
 CUTCHARS=""&'()*,;<=>?@[\]^`{|} ^I"
 MULTICLICK_TIME=500
 SCROLLBAR_DEFAULT_TYPE=1
 SB_WIDTH=10
 SCROLLBAR_INITIAL_DELAY=40
 SCROLLBAR_CONTINUOUS_DELAY=2
 ESCZ_ANSWER="^[[?1;2c"
 -PTY_GRP_NAME

CONFIG_SEARCH_PATH="~/.Eterm/themes:~/.Eterm:/usr/X11R6/etc/Eterm/themes:/etc/Eterm/themes:/usr/X11R6/share/Eterm/the                                                              
mes:/usr/X11R6/etc/Eterm:/etc/Eterm:/usr/X11R6/share/Eterm"
 THEME_CFG="theme.cfg"
 USER_CFG="user.cfg"
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-- 
Sebastien Chassot - Geneva



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