jeff
At 09:13 AM 5/28/99 -0500, Gisli Ottarsson wrote:
>...
>Thank you for your response. Here is what I have learned:
>
> % echo "keycode 48 = dead_acute quotedbl" | xmodmap -
>
>The key in question now generates an acute accent in AbiWord and many
>other applications including netscape, StarOffice 5.1, WordPerfect 8.0
>and some of the GNOME text widgets, e.g. gEdit, GXedit, Terminal
>et.al. Much better than what I had before.
>
>Xemacs, unfortunately, complains "Autoloading failed to define
>function compose-acute-map". An alternative that is more to Xemacs'
>liking:
>
> % echo "keycode 48 = SunFA_Acute quotedbl" | xmodmap -
>
>is totally useless in all the aforementioned applications but causes
>my version of AbiWord to crash as described earlier.
>
>So, it would seem that I should switch from SunFA_Acute to dead_acute
>which seems to be the more appropriate keysym (I'll figure out what is
>eating Xemacs). Meanwhile, you will probably want to look at the
>SunFA_Acute related crash.
>...
> >>
> >> System: RedHat 6.0
> >> Version: abisuite-0.7.0-1.i386.rpm
> >>
> >> I send a dead acute accent, per the following KeyPress event
> >>
> >> KeyPress event, serial 18, synthetic NO, window 0x3800001,
> >> root 0x26, subw 0x0, time 4159434140, (70,75), root:(1326,98),
> >> state 0x0, keycode 48 (keysym 0x1005ff03, SunFA_Acute), same_screen YES,
> >> XLookupString gives 0 characters: ""
> >>
> >> and abiword crashes with the following trace.