Typing ^. in Linux is cumbersome, what to do?
lazarus / 9-Editor

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Fungus · 2016-08-07 15:40

In Windows when i type "^" and then "." the result is "^." but when I
do this in Linux the result is ".". In order to get "^." I have to
press space between the two characters. Are there any setting in
Lazzie (or Linux) that can overcome this "issue"?

Danish keyboard layout btw..

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Thaddy · 2016-08-07 16:11

I can't reproduce this in Linux. It is probably a user setting that
causes that. Nothing to do with either fpc or Lazarus.

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bylaardt · 2016-08-07 20:13

This results from the keyboard configuration, choose another input
method on linux who ignores ^ as a diacritic complement. Otherwise you
can keep so and when you type  '^'+'a' to get 'â'
This is a linux configuration, not lazarus or fpc: You can test it on
gedit or kate to be sure.

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Bart · 2016-08-07 20:56

In Windows when you compose keys (you have an interational keyboard
layout), then when you press the second key, and it cannot be
composed, you get separate characters.
I.e. type ^ and then a, you get â, but type ^ and then z, you get ^z.

On Linux this may not be the case.
If the first character is one that can be combined to compose, and you
need it "un-composed", you need to press space after it.
At least that's how my Fedora/KDE does it, and like my old Suse/KDE
did.
Since I hardly need diacritics when programming I wrote a little shell
script to swicth between using standard US and US-international
keyboard.

Code: [Select]#!/bin/bash
function usage {
  echo usage: $0 on\|off
  exit 1
}

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  usage
fi

opt=$1
if [ "$opt" = "on" ]; then
  echo setting -variant intl for X keyboard
  setxkbmap -variant intl
elif [ "$opt" = "off" ]; then
  echo turning off -variant intl for X keyboard
  setxkbmap -variant ""
else usage
fi

This was way back in Suse 10.0.
Not sure if this would still work.

Bart

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Fungus · 2016-08-08 13:23

It is system wide with the exception that typing "^." in lazarus
yields "." anywhere else no character comes out at all. And sadly it
seems to be actually related to KDE since the issue is not present in
all DE's. It's just buggering me; gotten used to the windows behaviour
and old habbits are hard to change

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Fungus · 2016-08-09 09:30

If anyone could have interrest in it, the issue has been solved by
enabling "dead keys" in keyboard layout settings