Alt Gr key troubles in FreeBSD

[nocturnal]

Hi

Well i usually use vim and it's hard to know if it happens in other 
applications, because i use vim so much compared to the other 
applications and also because i mostly write those characters in vim. I 
do use FreeBSD at home to and i can't remember any problems from writing 
e-mails or chatting on irc. I use rxvt for all my terminal applications. 
Of course this could simply mean i don't use those characters much in 
those applications. I used to use nedit, before vim, and i am sure i had 
the same problem in nedit.



Med vänliga hälsningar

Stefan Midjich aka nocturnal
[Swehack] http://swehack.se


Erik Norgaard wrote:
> nocturnal wrote:
> 
>> i noticed major issues with Alt Gr keys. I think they're called 
>> deadkeys in the X.org configuration. It's mainly because i'm from 
>> sweden and have all the important characters like {, [, ], }, among 
>> others, on keys that require the Alt Gr key to be pressed for me to 
>> use them. It's hard to reproduce the problem as sometimes i can type 
>> at very high speed and still not have a problem when i hit an alt gr 
>> character and other times i type really slow but get stuck on the alt 
>> gr characters.
> 
> Dead keys AFAIK refers to the keys you normally use to compose other 
> characters with, such as ^ which you normally use to write a character 
> like â or ~ to write ñ. The keys you refer to, {},[] are not "dead" keys.
> 
> While I have had problems with _dead keys_ in some programs, I have 
> never had problems with the characters you mention (I use a danish 
> keyboard).
> 
> One thing I have noticed is that this may be application specific, you 
> may be able to write the character in one program under X but not in 
> another. I had for example a problem writing ñ with eterm while it 
> worked perfectly in xterm.
> 
> Some programs allow or require you to set these things separately, for 
> example xemacs and thunderbird.
> 
>> I'd love it if someone could point me in the right direction because i 
>> suspect this could be something i need to take up with the x.org people.
> 
> First check if this problem occurs in all applications or just some 
> applications, do also try xterm and vi under xterm. Also, try on a plain 
> console without X. And check your keyboard setting in your XF86Config.
> 
> If the problem is specific to some applications, post which.
> 
> Cheers, Erik