[openbox] dead keys

[meino.cramer at gmx.de]

Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida at gmail.com> [10-06-15 03:55]:
> I've been trying to migrate from KDE to OpenBox and I'm having
> troubles with terminal emulators. I launch xterm from the menu or from
> a shortcut. Dead keys are not working right: for example, pressing
> acute+a shoud give á (a-acute); but I have to press "a" twice for the
> output to appear.  Using urxvt is even worse; no dead keys at all.
> Now, this is the really weird thing: if I launch an xterm from the CLI
> (that is, from the badly behaved xterm window), a new xterm window
> pops up in which dead keys behave as they should! Same for urxvt.
> I use xmodmap (from the openbox autostart script) to customize my
> keyboard. I know it works (other customized stuff besides dead keys
> works as expected, even in the initial, badly behaved, xterm window).
> 
> Thanks for any hint...
> 
> Jorge Almeida
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Hi Jorge,

I think, you are calling xmodmap too late. Move the according
commandline from the autostart script into you personal 
$HOME/.xinitrc file and restart X (logout X->login X)
Good luck!
HTH!
Best regards,
mcc