Re: shortcuts using non-english keymap

[pclouds <pclouds vnlinux org>]

Hi Danilo,

I've never known this feature of Gtk+. I tried to avoid using
non-ascii characters as mnemonic keys. When i use "o+'" (U+1EDB LATIN
SMALL LETTER O WITH HORN AND ACUTE) as a mnemonic and press "o", it
doesn't work (ascii characters do). Can you tell me how to make it
work? 

Thanks

On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 07:28:09PM +0200, Danilo Segan wrote:
> Gtk+ handles this in a way with the default input method.
> 
> When you press a key, it cycles through all the groups in a current
> XKB map until a match is found.
> 
> So, basically, I load several groups (one English, one Serbian
> Cyrillic, one Serbian Latin).  This makes my "A" key mapped as
> follows:
> 
>  A -> [ a, A], [Cyrillic_a, Cyrillic_A], [a, A]
> 
> So, when I press Alt+A, Gtk+ looks through all of these.  Since we
> use underscore on Cyrillic letters, and I've got menu item "_????????", if
> I'm currently using English keymap group, Gtk+ would try following
> shortcuts:
> 
>  Alt+A, Alt+Cyrillic_A, Alt+A
> 
> until a match is found (which happens at Cyrillic_A in this example).
> 
> All of this is easily accomplished by using multi-layout features of
> XKB in XFree86 4.3 or later (use en_US for combining).  For instance,
> if you're using "sr" map by default, you'd do something like:
> 
>    setxkbmap -option "grp:shift_toggle" -layout "sr,en_US"
> 
> 
> There's one way to do this directly from XKB, but this conflicts with
> Gtk+, and causes some problems.  To see how it works, check the
> keymap at http://srpski.org/dunav/, and try pressing Ctrl+C in xterm
> while using xterm, or something else (not Gtk+ programs, you'll notice
> very strange behaviour with it).
> 
> There's a bug report about Gtk+ and this behaviour (search Bugzilla
> for summary with "Ctrl+Backspace" or something similar in it).
> 
> Cheers,
> Danilo
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