Bug 77228 – quote keys must be hit twice for keystroke to be recognized

Bug 77228 - quote keys must be hit twice for keystroke to be recognized

Summary:	quote keys must be hit twice for keystroke to be recognized

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification:	Retired
Component:	XFree86 (Show other bugs)
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Version:	1.0
Hardware:	i686 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Mike A. Harris
QA Contact:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	2002-11-03 14:57 EST by Justin Georgeson
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:48 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2002-11-03 18:16:44 EST
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XF86 log file (49.51 KB, text/plain) 2002-11-03 15:01 EST, Justin Georgeson	no flags	Details
XF86 config file (1.81 KB, text/plain) 2002-11-03 15:02 EST, Justin Georgeson	no flags	Details
lspci -n listing (420 bytes, text/plain) 2002-11-03 15:03 EST, Justin Georgeson	no flags	Details
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Description Justin Georgeson 2002-11-03 14:57:50 EST

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021018

Description of problem:
I just upgraded to XFree86-4.2.99.2-0.20021101.4 from
XFree86-4.2.99.2-0.20021018.5, and the quote keys must be hit more than once to
register the keystroke. the backquote key (`) must be hit twice, while the
single quote key (o?=) must be hit three times. This behavior is only exhibited in X.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Hit either the back quote or single quote key, in X

	

Actual Results:  Must hit the key 2 or 3 times to register keystroke

Expected Results:  Should only have to hit key once.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Justin Georgeson 2002-11-03 15:00:08 EST

Guess I should have proofread before commiting. I just noticed that it show o?=
instead of a single quote. Perhaps this is a little deeper than I first thought.

Comment 2 Justin Georgeson 2002-11-03 15:01:28 EST

Created attachment 83365 [details]
XF86 log file

Comment 3 Justin Georgeson 2002-11-03 15:02:11 EST

Created attachment 83366 [details]
XF86 config file

Comment 4 Justin Georgeson 2002-11-03 15:03:54 EST

Created attachment 83367 [details]
lspci -n listing

Comment 5 Mike A. Harris 2002-11-03 18:08:21 EST

This is standard behaviour if deadkeys are enabled.  Typing any of the
quote keys, the :, and various other keys enables deadkey mode which
is used to compose accented glyphs for various other languages such as
French, German, etc.

Are you positive that you do not have deadkeys enabled?  I see that you
have chosen the US International keyboard layout, which I believe has
deadkeys by default.

Option "XkbLayout"	"us_intl"

Try changing this to just "us", then restarting X.  Does that solve the
problem?

Comment 6 Justin Georgeson 2002-11-03 18:16:37 EST

That fixed it. Thanks. :)

Comment 7 Mike A. Harris 2002-11-04 02:03:18 EST

Ok, so this was just a misconfiguration then, not a bug.  Deadkeys are a
method of inputting accented characters quickly.  Personally I dislike
deadkeys the same as you do.  ;o)   But some International users prefer
deadkeys as an easy way to input accents, for example by typing:

'o   - to get an o with a ' accent on top, or
:o   - to get an o with a .. on top

Beware of the international keyboard!  ;o)

Closing NOTABUG

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