Compose key oddity

[Roland Smith]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 09:20:29PM -0700, John W wrote:
> I have no ~/.XCompose file, so that's out.

Also check for ~/.Xmodmap. See xmodmap(1).

> If I press <dot> <dot>, I get two periods, so it can't be a dead key,
> it seems. I think a dead key will not register the first time you
> press it, if I understand correctly.
> 
> Running xev (thanks for telling me about that one!) gives interesting output.
> typing <rwin><dot><dot> gives these events:
> KeyPress for keycode 115  (which is rwin)
> KeyRelease for keycode 115
> KeyPress for '.'
> KeyRelease for '.'
> KeyPress for '.'
> KeyPress for '…'    <-- It sees the ellipsis!
> KeyRelease for '.'
> 
> In fact the DOT ABOVE character doesn't show up in xev's output at all.
> And yet it shows up everywhere else I try it.
> 
> To my surprise, I haven't yet found a good way to simply print out
> what my current keyboard layout is...
> Also I'm not sure if there's a separate layout for X and for the OS in
> general, I think they're different.

Yes.

> For OS keyboard map:
> I don't have anything defined in rc.conf, so I'm just using the kernel
> default, I think.
> However, looking at /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/NOTES, I see these lines:
> 
>     # Options for atkbd:
>     options         ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP       # specify the built-in keymap
>     makeoptions     ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP=jp.106
> 
> Can that really mean that I'm using a japanese keyboard layout by default?

No. NOTES is not used in building the kernel. It just lists the available options.

> For X side of things, I see this in my Xorg.0.log:
<snip>
> I couldn't find a better way to determine my current in-use keyboard
> map. Perhaps there's some command for that? 'setxkbmap -print' had
> some cryptic output.

Try 'xmodmap -pke|less'.

Roland
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