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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:38:03 +0100 (MET)
From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander DOT gottwald AT s1999 DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de>
To: cygwin-xfree AT cygwin DOT com, fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net
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Subject: Re: No on-screen response to keypress until press spacebar
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On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net wrote:

> Currently experiencing a weird problem in Cygwin on W2000:
> 
> In a rxvt window, both " and ' behave in the same way: pressing either key
> results in nothing on the screen, but pressing either key followed by
> <space> results in the expected ' or " appearing, without the space.

This is the dead-key feature (or problem). Within X11 you can load the keymap
with the "nodeadkeys" option (but then you can only compose keys like à and â
with the compose key).

bye
	ago
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