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Leo Zerino
Asked: 2020-02-07 20:53:24 +0800 CST

Enable dead key usage in urxvt

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I'm able to normaly use dead keys over the whole system.

FYI I live in Brazil and we use accented letters, as in é á ó ã õ.

We need dead key support for this as we type first the accent key " ´ " and then the proper key " a " to get and á

It doesn't work in terminals like 'st' and 'urxvt' tough. I've searched thoroughly over the internet to no avail.

EDIT:

Change keyboard layout (English UK) on command line to English US doesn't solve my problem, as it is urxvt and st related.

Modern terminals like "tilix" or "gnome-terminal" are able to produce "á é é" characters

keyboard dead-keys rxvt

1 Answers

  1. I have the English US keyboard, and I switch to the English US International keyboard with dead keys to type accents in Spanish. I have no issue typing accents in urxvt. I am using Debian 11.

    To set my keyboard, I can use the commands:

    setxkbmap us
setxkbmap us intl

    Furthermore, I have a keybinding set to run this script to toggle between keyboard layouts:

    #!/bin/bash

setxkbmap -query | grep -q "variant" &&
(setxkbmap us && notify-send -t 400 "Keyboard US") ||
(setxkbmap us intl && notify-send -t 400 "Keyboard US International")
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