urxvt and dead keys

[Marc Lehmann]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 02:27:37PM +0100, François Patte <francois.patte at mi.parisdescartes.fr> wrote:
> > There is nothing special you need to do to enable dead keys, they work out of
> > the box unless they are disabled somehow.
> 
> As they are not working, they must be disabled somewhere... but where?

I must admit I don't know then - urxvt is not responsible for dead keys, it's your
xlib and your configuration.

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 02:33:40PM +0100, fa-ml <fa-ml at ariis.it> wrote:
> I had a similar problem after installing Debian Wheezy and trying to configure
> a CJK input method (via ibus). Do you happen to be in the same situation?
> What helped me was to to launch rxvt-unicode like:
> 
>     XMODIFIERS="" urxvt
> 
> Even though it's a workaround rather than a solution

If XMODIFIERS are set to use some input method, then urxvt will use the input
method as configured. If the input method doesn't do dead keys, then urxvt
will not have dead key support either.

So if that is the case, then properly setting (or clearing) XMODIFIERS is the
solution - urxvt can only go by what it is being told to use.

urxvt has more support for x input methods than xterm or most gui apps
(which don't normally use x input methods at all). That might explain why
xterm works - it will not see the input method, and just use the standard
kexyboard mapping. Likewise other terminals.

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