<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Andre Majorel <<a href="mailto:aym-11x@teaser.fr">aym-11x@teaser.fr</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="im">On <a href="tel:2012-01-02%2013" value="+12012010213">2012-01-02 13</a>:09 +0200, Simos Xenitellis wrote: > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Andre Majorel <<a href="mailto:aym-11x@teaser.fr">aym-11x@teaser.fr</a>> wrote: > > > Is there is a way to have a dead key output itself and the next > > key if there is no valid combination ? > > > > E.G. with [^] mapped to dead_circumflex, have [^][a] output "â" > > but [^][b] output "^b" instead of nothing. > > > > > I think this would require to change the source code and recompile. > You would either do this at the Xorg level (recompile Xorg) or the GTK+ > level (assuming you use the GNOME desktop environment, which replicates the > Xorg functionality; recompile gtk+). > For GNOME, you would need to make changes around > <a href="http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/tree/gtk/gtkimcontextsimple.c#n711" target="_blank">http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/tree/gtk/gtkimcontextsimple.c#n711</a> </div>Thank you. No KnomeCE or QTK here, just FVWM and a bunch of Xterms. <div class="im"> > There might be an easier workaround if you can give a description of what > you are trying to achieve. > For example, if you want to write a language that has a ^ over b, then you > can use combining diacritics </div>> and write b?? (b + 0x302). LC_CTYPE=en_US (ISO 8859-1). Driver "evdev" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "fr" I type mainly code and French or English prose. The fr keyboard layout comes with dead_circumflex, which is good because French uses â, ê, î, ô, û and their upper case counterparts. But it means one extra keystroke to go to column 1 in vi, negate a character class, anchor a regexp, etc. Since even in uxterm, [^][b] is a no-op, it's not clear what the advantage of requiring an extra keystroke is. <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> </div></div></blockquote><div> What I understand is that, even though you can have a dedicated physical key that outputs ^, you would like the ability to get dead_circumflex + [character] to print '^[character]', for those characters that do not take a precomposed circumflex. </div></div> In any case, since you use plain xterms, you can create compose sequences that you add in your ~/<code>.XCompose</code> that cover those combinations that dead_circumflex is not supposed to work with. For example, for 'b', you would add the line <dead_circumflex> : "^b" <dead_circumflex> : "^B" These two rules say that when you press the keys before the ':', you get the string after the ':' (the string in quotes). Simos