[openbox] dead keys

[Dana Jansens]

On 15/06/10 03:37 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:24 AM,  <meino.cramer at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> 
>>
>> 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)
> 
> Thanks, I tried it. My .xinitrc is not getting sourced, by some
> reason. But that cannot be the problem: I was not talking about a
> xterm launched by the initialization script, so xmodmap has plenty of
> time to do its stuff (and I checked that it does).
> 
> The problem is: an xterm launched by shortcut/menu is bad (no matter
> how late in the session it is launched), an xterm launched from an
> existing terminal emulator is good.
> The bad ones have other problems besides dead keys: some characters in
> man pages are wrong (hyfen, double quotes...)
> 
> I have en_US.utf8 set as locale, and the font is LiberationMono, in
> case this matters.

Where do you set the locale?