Re: Mississippi -> Miiippi

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Dai,

What language is Windows using by default?

You have, or course, tried this same demo (very carefully, I might add)
to make sure that the same problem happens when you don't use setxkbmap?

Harold

Dai Itasaka wrote:

> I did:
> 
>  setxkbmap -rules xfree86 -model pc104 -layout us -option ""
> 
> XWin was invoked without any option in startxwin.sh. (XWin &)
> 
> The keyboard is a normal US keyboard. (101? It's from Dell)
> 
> 
> ) Are you installing your own keymap?
> )
> ) Are you using an XF86Config file?
> )
> ) What keyboard layout is Windows configured for?
> )
> ) Harold
> )
> ) Dai Itasaka wrote:
> )
> ) > Hello list,
> ) >
> ) > Here is what I did:
> ) >
> ) > - Opened several tcsh windows (as separate MS Window apps)
> ) > - Started X by invoking "startxwin.sh" which gave me one big root window
> ) >   and one xterm window
> ) > - In this xterm window, I did:
> ) >     > xhost 10.0.1.2
> ) >     > ssh myname@10.0.1.2
> ) >     (now I'm logged in)
> ) >     > setenv DISPLAY 10.0.1.1:0
> ) >     (10.0.1.1 is the Windows PC with cygwin running, 10.0.1.2 is a Linux
> box)
> ) >     > twm &
> ) >     (now the desktop is managed by twm)
> ) > - Opened a few more xterm windows from twm and already opened xterm
> ) > - Went back to one of the tcsh window and did:
> ) >     > setenv DISPLAY localhost:0
> ) >     > xterm
> ) >
> ) > This opened up one xterm window in the X desktop with "bash-2.05b" prompt.
> ) > In this xterm window, I couldn't type the letter 's'. Not only I couldn't
> ) > type, but I was unable to yank and copy a string with 's'. For example,
> ) > I yanked a string "tcsh" in another xterm window and pasted it in this
> ) > troubled xterm window, it displayed "tch". For another example, I yanked
> ) > the word "Mississippi" from /usr/share/dict/words and pasted it and got
> ) > "Miiippi". I had no such problem in any other xterm windows but this.
> ) >
> ) > What was happening?
> ) >
> ) >
> ) >>uname -a
> ) >
> ) > CYGWIN_NT-5.1 myname 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown unknown
> ) > Cygwin
> ) >
> ) >
>