GNOME and input method integration
GNOME and input method integration
Posted Jun 26, 2012 23:03 UTC (Tue) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)Parent article: GNOME and input method integration
Do dead keys and (acrobatic...) modifiers involve a so-called "input method"? Or is something entirely different? Think diacritics.
I used to fix poor default configurations using a simple xmodmaprc file, but eventually got lost in the "advanced" and changing GNOME keyboard configuration techniques and gave up.
I now tend to use spell-checkers instead! Typically not able to fix 100% of the missing diacritics but 90% is much better than 10%.
Posted Jun 26, 2012 23:40 UTC (Tue)
by Tester (guest, #40675)
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Posted Jun 27, 2012 10:42 UTC (Wed)
by csslayer (guest, #85354)
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Actually it is IM thing on other platform, I don't see the reason that it should not be on linux.
Posted Jun 27, 2012 11:44 UTC (Wed)
by daniels (subscriber, #16193)
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Actually, they do, it's just that Xlib's built-in input method supports it. If you want to compose á using a dead key, the user types — and the X server sends — a 'dead_acute' keypress, followed by an 'a' keypress. It's then up to the client to compose this into á, much the same way it does for Compose+a+'. You can check this by looking at /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose for the built-in X Input Method:
Broadly speaking, anything which involves multiple keypresses turning into one, is an input method feature.
Posted Jun 27, 2012 12:42 UTC (Wed)
by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
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So, can you have situations like: one GNOME application and one KDE application running side by side and composing this example differently?
Posted Jun 27, 2012 12:48 UTC (Wed)
by daniels (subscriber, #16193)
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GNOME and input method integration
GNOME and input method integration
GNOME and input method integration
<dead_acute> <a> : "á" aacute # LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
GNOME and input method integration
GNOME and input method integration