On Sat, 18 Aug 2012, Marcin Cieslak wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Aug 2012, Antonis Tsolomitis wrote:
>
>>
>>>> setxkbmap -layout us,gr -option grp:alt_shift_toggle -option
>>>> terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp -option grp_led:scroll -option eurosign:5
>>>> -option eurosign:e -option ctrl:swapcaps
>>> What locale are you running?
>>
>> It does the same either in C or in el_GR.UTF-8
>
> First, to clarify: do not run CDE with UTF-8 locale. Only
> locales listed in /usr/dt/appconfig/types/ might work.
>
> So I would recommend testing only with LANG=C and set different
> LANG only for one application to see if you can actually type
> non-ASCII text.
>
>> I just started with the latter locale and when I change keyboard to Greek,
>> windows can not be moved around, can not be minimized or maximized
>> can not come forward. The wm menu (left icon on any window bar) does not
>> function.
>
> OK, now I see the issue (switched to Russian). I think it's a more
> general and not CDE-specific issue. I have seen the same with dwm
> - in the Russian keyboard I can't switch workspaces there too.
>

This may not have any effect, but if you set the following env var
before running cde, does it change anything?

export XMODIFIERS=@im=

> Regarding translations: maybe we could ask IBM to donate what
> they've had. I remember using different translations of CDE
> for AIX and they were excellent.
>

IIRC, Sun had quite a few too.

-- 
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  come in too fast and punch himself out."
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