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On Wednesday 05 January 2011 15:50:48 Mike wrote: |
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> No you wags, not "#", I mean a real "£"! |
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> I'm having a tiny bit of trouble with my Gentoo install. I have two |
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> machines, a desktop and a laptop and on both I have set the keymap in |
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> whichever config file it should be set in (/etc/rc.conf?). Result is |
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> that on a vtty I can login and use my keyboard quite happily. |
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> I have also set the config in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ to set my keymap for |
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> X and all is mostly goo and well there too. I get a UK keymap and I can |
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> type quite happily in my windows. |
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> The slight problem is that if I launch LXterminal and try trying it in |
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> the terminal, all the keys are fine with the execption that £ (shift+3) |
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> actually prints a question mark "?". The interestig thing is that |
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> somewhere in LXterminal's settings, there is a text input box. And if I |
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> do a shift+3 in this box, I get a £. It's only the actual terminal |
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> where it doesn't work. All the other keymapping in the terminal works |
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> fine. I've noticed this irritation afflicts both my desktop and laptop |
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> and dispite various Googling, I can't find anytthing that describes this |
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> irritation. |
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> Does anyone have any ideas why this might be? |
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> Cheers, |
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> Mike. |
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different fonts maybe? |
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