Re: Xfce, xfce4-terminal, and UTF-8

[George Mitchell]

On 1/1/21 3:12 PM, Guido Falsi via freebsd-ports wrote:

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If using XFCE as your DE it's own settings tool would be the best place.

.cshrc does not look like the correct place for it anyway. That file is executed multiple times during a session. I'm not sure how it can work for everything else. Also the fact that XFCE has it's own configuration, if it's not configured from there could cause conflicts. IMHO a better place would be .xsession if using a display manager or Xinit if using startx.

Regardless of where I put setxkbmap, xev shows this sequence of events
when I type the compose key (Left Win), ', and e to enter "é":

KeyPress event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x2e00001,
     root 0x50f, subw 0x2e00002, time 89630, (34,51), root:(905,493),
     state 0x10, keycode 133 (keysym 0xff20, Multi_key), same_screen YES,
     XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
     XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
     XFilterEvent returns: True

KeyRelease event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x2e00001,
     root 0x50f, subw 0x2e00002, time 89758, (34,51), root:(905,493),
     state 0x10, keycode 133 (keysym 0xff20, Multi_key), same_screen YES,
     XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
     XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x2e00001,
     root 0x50f, subw 0x2e00002, time 92574, (34,51), root:(905,493),
     state 0x10, keycode 48 (keysym 0x27, apostrophe), same_screen YES,
     XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (27) "'"
     XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (27) "'"
     XFilterEvent returns: True

KeyRelease event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x2e00001,
     root 0x50f, subw 0x2e00002, time 92750, (34,51), root:(905,493),
     state 0x10, keycode 48 (keysym 0x27, apostrophe), same_screen YES,
     XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (27) "'"
     XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x2e00001,
     root 0x50f, subw 0x2e00002, time 98926, (34,51), root:(905,493),
     state 0x10, keycode 26 (keysym 0x65, e), same_screen YES,
     XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (65) "e"
     XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (65) "e"
     XFilterEvent returns: True

KeyPress event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x2e00001,
     root 0x50f, subw 0x2e00002, time 98926, (34,51), root:(905,493),
     state 0x10, keycode 0 (keysym 0xe9, eacute), same_screen YES,
     XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
     XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (e9) "�"
     XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 37, synthetic NO, window 0x2e00001,
     root 0x50f, subw 0x2e00002, time 99062, (34,51), root:(905,493),
     state 0x10, keycode 26 (keysym 0x65, e), same_screen YES,
     XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (65) "e"
     XFilterEvent returns: False

The same sequence in an xfce4-terminal window shows nothing, but
any following keypresses act normally.

I removed the setxkbmap command from my .cshrc and used the XFCE
keyboard settings to set the compose key to Left Win.  Then I logged
out and back in.  I verified that the keyboard settings dialog still
showed that Left Win was used for the compose key.  But it does not
work at all.  When I type Left Win, ', e in xfce4-terminal (or in
any other client in my session), it shows 'e.  Xev shows the three
keypresses and releases but no e with acute accent.      -- George

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