On 2022-05-22 21:59:35 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I also have updated around XIM bugs with more subdued tone. As long > as you type ASCII characters only, you may not hit bugs (I hope.)
I use XKB specifically to enter non-ASCII characters: accented characters (either with a direct mapping to the Unicode character or via a dead key), Greek letters (via a dead key) and math symbols (either with a direct mapping to the Unicode character or via the compose key). But at the end, I always get a single Unicode character (I do not need to handle combinations of Unicode characters). These where things that one could mostly do for years, even before XKB (e.g. with xmodmap), though xmodmap had additional limitations with some keys. It seems that the issues mentioned in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2013610 concern input methods that are not possible with XKB (at least I'm not aware of). > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]> > > .... > > > I can read that xterm uses XIM mechanism and XIM mechanism is buggy. :( > > I use mostly xterm (actually a patched version). The other terminals > > have font and mouse-wheel handling issues. > > Hmmm... gnome-terminal may be bloated but we can use other lighter > terminal programs. I've tried xfce4-terminal and lxterminal and they have the same issues as gnome-terminal. > I don't have any issue displaying English/French/Chinese/Japanese/... > So I am curious why you are struggling with font and terminal. For xterm, this is due to a change in libfreetype6 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=866960 (I've patched xterm, but this is rather ugly because this depends very much on the font and its size, and I finally think that this should become a preference). I'm not sure whether this is the same cause for the other terminals, because the libfreetype6 developers recommend to use the unrounded metrics, which xterm doesn't do. In xfce4-terminal, allowing the vertical cell spacing in the terminal preferences to be slightly less than 1 might solve the issue if this is supported internally. Concerning the mouse wheel (bug reported for gnome-terminal): https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=921537 and this cannot be disabled (ditto with xfce4-terminal at least): https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=921537#60 -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
