dead keys not working at all?

[Troy Korjuslommi]

xev is also an X app. Can you please clarify whether xev displays the
correct output? I.e. displays the desired character on the line where it
says "XLookupString {something}"?

Also, do you have a locale set which has the characters you want? 

The compose file used must have the dead_acute+{letter} combination set.
If not, things won't work. It gets picked up by the keyboard layout
configs. I.e. a suitable keyboard layout must also have a suitable
compose file.

Try doing the following:
1. set locale to one with the characters you want.
2. set keyboard layout to one with the dead_acute key.
3. login again and try xev and your regular app. 


Troy



On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 14:32 +0900, Adrien "Pied" Piérard wrote:
> Hello everyone.
> 
> I have just installed a FreeBSD 8.2 release with X.Org X Server 1.7.7
> I tried several layouts and variants, but it seems that I cannot get
> any dead key work.
> 
> Even though `xev` shows that the keys are read
> (say, "state 0x80, keycode 25 (keysym 0xfe51, dead_acute), same_screen YES")
> typing those keys followed by a vowel like "e" does not give "é" (or
> "ê", or "è", etc) as I would expect, but just "e".
> This behavior happens with all the X applications I could try (not
> restricted to some given toolkit).
> 
> This is the first time I ever have this problem, and have no idea
> related to how to solve it or investigate it more.
> 
> FWIW, I have the following in my xorg.conf:
> 
> Section "ServerFlags"
>     Option         "DontZap" "false"
>     Option         "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier     "Keyboard0"
>     Driver         "kbd"
>     Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
>     Option         "XkbVariant" "kibe"
> EndSection
> 
> ("kibe" is my own variant, but I tried other variants too)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> P!
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