Le mercredi 15 juillet 2020 à 10:38 -0300, jorge hernando a écrit : > I can also confirm that the qt5 5.11 works well. My old setup, fedora > 29 and lyx 2.3.3, where all the accents worked had qt5 5.11.
Maybe you can still start this old setup as a workaround? > By the way, if I write in another application (not qt based) like > nedit and made copy and paste with the mouse I obtain the accents but > not the newlines, Never noticed that. Perhaps it's worth starting a new thread? Here, in this case I get the accents and the _double_ newlines, which become a single newline in LyX... > if I insert the file (Insert -> file -> plain text) I obtain the new > lines but not the accents (same behaviour if I import the text). ... whereas in that case I still get the accents, and the newlines, but the double newlines become single. Strange. > Does it exist a setting in lyx in order to have the best of both > procedures? > Jorge > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 4:03 AM Daniel CLEMENT <dcleme...@free.fr> > wrote: > > Le lundi 13 juillet 2020 à 11:14 -0300, jorge hernando a écrit : > > > Thanks to all of you. I believe I can confirm that this is a qt > > bug. > > > Following Daniel's suggestion I installed featherpad (a qt > > > application) and it has the same lyx behaviour: the dead keys are > > > really dead. [...] > > > > Just FWIW, I tried something: I'm planning to update my oldstable > > Debian (9) to stable (10) these months and I wanted to check whether > > everything was OK. > > > > So I ran the newer distro from a live USB session and installed > > Featherpad (not LyX, because it would pull a whole TeX system). > > > > The dead keys were working well! (except the cedilla of course) All the > > libqt5... thingies had version 5.11.3. The regression in QT (if any) > > must have come later. > > > > I hope you can get back a working setup soon. BR, Daniel > > > > > > > > > Thanks to all of you > > > > > > Jorge > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 3:50 AM Daniel CLEMENT <dcleme...@laposte.net > > > > wrote: > > > > Hi Jorge, I have struggled a long time with dead keys, but only for > > > > the > > > > cedilla character. I posted several times about that; I can but > > > > offer > > > > to compare our setups > > > > > > > > Le dimanche 12 juillet 2020 à 17:02 -0300, jorge hernando a écrit : > > > > > Hallo > > > > > I have one PC with english keyboard (US international with dead > > > > > keys) > > > > > > > > same here (LyX 2.3.2 - Debian Stretch [yeah I know...]) > > > > > > > > > [...] the accents work perfectly (e.g. á is " 'a ") when in a > > > > > terminal, opening nedit, ooffice, etc. > > > > > > > > But these are not "QT applications". Could you compare with another > > > > such app. (Filezilla? Scribus? Master PDF?...) > > > > > > > > > but in lyx not only it doesn't work, the dead key is really dead: > > > > if > > > > > I type ' in lyx it doesn't type anything [...] > > > > > > > > Can't you even get the apostrophe with ' + spacebar? > > > > > > > > > > [...] I looked at some .kmap files in > > > > > /usr/share/lyx/kbd, [...] > > > > > > > > I understand that these files are now deprecated, and overridden by > > > > the > > > > QT settings (can someone confirm that?) > > > > > > > > > [...] I looked at /usr/share/lyx/bind > > > > > > > > This is for shortcuts, but of course you want to type accented > > > > characters the same way in LyX as in other apps, don't you? > > > > > > > > So here, working PC with US Intl + dead keys: > > > > - my ~.lyx/kbd folder is empty; > > > > - in LyX under Tools -> Editing -> Keyboard/Mouse I have no > > > > "keyboard > > > > remap" specified. > > > > > > > > This generally allows me to get the accented characters (except the > > > > cedilla). What about first trying with a completely blank LyX setup > > > > (e.g. renaming your .lyx folder)? > > > > > > > > > [...] In the mailing list it is mentioned (in 2019) that there is > > > > a > > > > > workaround related with Qt: to include in .xsessionrc the line > > > > > export QT_IM_MODULE=xim > > > > > I created the file with that line but didn't work > > > > > > > > In case you came across a post of mine, I was referring to > > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/+bug/518056 > > > > (especially post #39) But it's about getting the cedilla, not _all_ > > > > of > > > > the accented characters, but you might want to review this thread. > > > > > > > > However, the "export QT_IM_MODULE=xim" thing is not a solution by > > > > itself, but comes after tweaking some QT config files (mentioned in > > > > the > > > > thread above). Maybe something got broken there with a QT update? > > > > It > > > > always happens to me. > > > > > > > > But let's hope you won't have to dive into this for each and every > > > > accented character! > > > > > > > > Good luck - Daniel > > > > > > -- > > Daniel CLEMENT > > -- Daniel CLEMENT -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
