[Cuis-dev] How to enter the method return character?

[Gerald Klix]

On 3/23/23 5:22 PM, Juan Vuletich wrote:
> On 3/23/2023 1:16 PM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
>> On 3/23/23 4:59 PM, Juan Vuletich wrote:
>>> On 3/23/2023 7:18 AM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>>> On 3/8/23 10:04 PM, Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>>>> On 3/8/2023 5:17 PM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>>>>> On 3/8/23 8:28 PM, Mariano Montone via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>>>>>> El 8/3/23 a las 16:09, Juan Vuletich escribió:
>>>>>>>> Hi Mariano,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I wasn't aware of this, but the Linux VM reports [DeadKey] + 
>>>>>>>> [Space] very differently from the Mac and Windows VMs. Earlier 
>>>>>>>> today I pushed a fix. $^ and $" should be OK now with your 
>>>>>>>> LatAm keyboard.
>>>>>>> It works again. Thanks!
>>>>>> Thanks, Actually that dead key behavior made me use US keyboard 
>>>>>> layout instead of German one,
>>>>>> when I turned back to Smalltalk about 4 your ago.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gerald
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been using the US International layout, with dead keys, for 
>>>>> over 20 years. It is just that I use mostly Mac nowadays, so I 
>>>>> wasn't aware of the problem. Besides, having now Unicode in Cuis 
>>>>> makes handling this much nicer.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>> I just tested it with a German keyboard for Sun Microsystems. ^ is 
>>>> still ad dead key on Linux and FreeBSD.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> HTH,
>>>>
>>>> Gerald
>>>
>>> Yes, it is a dead key, same as in any other Linux app, like a text 
>>> editor. So, [^] followed by [space] should generate '^' (return, 
>>> possibly up arrow), and [^] followed by [a] should generate 'â'. The 
>>> same as in a regular text editor.
>>>
>>> Isn't that what you get?
>>>
>> Yes, of course. It is rather annoying.
>
> We're just following the OS convention... If that's annoying, maybe 
> there's some way to get different behavior in the OS...
>
I know, hope dies last. I thought I'll get away without
messing with X11 settings.

This does the job.
setxkbmap -device 15 -layout de -model sun -geometry sun -variant nodeadkeys

I also learned, that I can set keyboard mapping for each keyboard 
separately,
hence the '-device 14'.