keyboard special characters don't work in netbeans and other apps

[Ian Pilcher]

M.Holubec wrote:
> Hello,
> i've problem with keyboard. If i want to type some special charakters
> like quotes or apostrofes, i must to press the keyboard button twice.
> Problem is, that this trick don't worx in any applications (like netbeans).
> i'm using FC2, KDE (kdebase-3.2.2-6.FC2, kdelibs-3.2.2-8.FC2,...) with
> U.S. international keyboard defaultly. In system-config-keyboard i've
> configured U.S. intl keyb too.
> Thank u a lot
> 

If you want to get rid of these "dead keys", switch your keyboard layout
to "U.S. English".  This will, of course, leave you with no easy way to
type accented characters.  I solved this by putting the following script
in $HOME/.kde/Autostart:

#!/bin/bash

exec xmodmap  -e 'keycode 113 = Mode_switch'                           \
               -e 'keycode 38 = a A aacute Aacute'                      \
               -e 'keycode 26 = e E eacute Eacute'                      \
               -e 'keycode 31 = i I iacute Iacute'                      \
               -e 'keycode 32 = o O oacute Oacute'                      \
               -e 'keycode 30 = u U uacute Uacute'                      \
               -e 'keycode 57 = n N ntilde Ntilde'                      \
               -e 'keycode 10 = 1 exclam exclamdown exclamdown'         \
               -e 'keycode 61 = slash question questiondown questiondown'

113 is the right Alt key on my keyboard, this allows me to use that key
to type non-English characters I need for my Spanish homework.  If you
want to use a different key as Mode_switch, play with xev to figure out
which keycode it generates.

If you don't know the symbolic name for a character that you want to
generate, you can use its Unicode value (at least for ISO-8859-1
characters).  So, for example, you can determine the symbolic names
like this:

[pilcher at home pilcher]$ xmodmap -e 'keycode 38 = a A 0xE1 0xC1'
[pilcher at home pilcher]$ xmodmap -pk | grep '(a)'
38    0x0061 (a)    0x0041 (A)    0x00e1 (aacute)    0x00c1 (Aacute)

Hope this helps!
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Ian Pilcher                                        i.pilcher at comcast.net
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