From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19296 invoked by alias); 16 Dec 2013 22:00:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 18229 Received: (qmail 4868 invoked from network); 16 Dec 2013 22:00:19 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 14:00:17 -0800 From: Michael Rasmussen To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9?= 'Necoro' Neumann Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org Subject: Re: AltGr key combination recognition Message-ID: <20131216220017.GA28783@jamhome.us> References: <20131216211102.GB28400@jamhome.us> <52AF7472.7010006@necoro.eu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <52AF7472.7010006@necoro.eu> X-Curious: Finding what you want in the headers? User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 10:45:22PM +0100, René 'Necoro' Neumann wrote: > Am 16.12.2013 22:11, schrieb Michael Rasmussen: > > My freshly installed zsh[1] does not accept AltGr character input. > > A search of the list archives shows that other people have successfully > > used AltGr keyboard mappings, though the messages were from 2005 - 2008. > > > > The FAQ also states: > > If you have a recent X Window System installation, you might find the > > AltGr key helps you input accented Latin characters; for example on > > my keyboard AltGr-; > > > > I am using the grml zsh config, but a "zsh -d" shell exhibits the same problem. > > > > Would someone with a working AltGr setup please share what was needed to enable it. > > Is it the shell or the terminal that does not work? In other words: Does > another shell in the same terminal work? Switching to bash allows the combinations to work. Even sshing to another host where bash is my default allows it to work. Which sounds quite odd because zsh must be accepting the key codes and sending them on through the ssh tunnel. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://gplus.to/MichaelRpdx A special random fortune cookie fortune: I want to submit patches to Google's Adwords API but they use svn and I can't be bothered to hit myself in the head with a hammer. ~ Curtis "Ovid" Poe