X server acting funny when displaying remote KDE session

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Stefan Heinzmann wrote:

> That ain't it. As far as I can tell this configures the
> readline library which is part of bash. But my problem isn't
> limited to bash. I can open a document editor in remote KDE
> and still can't type umlauts. I can hardly imagine that this
> has anything to do with readline.

please try xev. This program logs all X11 events and keypresses.

for ä it gives me the sequence 

KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001,
    root 0x36, subw 0x1a00002, time 696205690, (34,37), root:(779,277),
    state 0x0, keycode 50 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 characters:  ""

KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001,
    root 0x36, subw 0x1a00002, time 696205710, (34,37), root:(779,277),
    state 0x1, keycode 48 (keysym 0xfe57, dead_diaeresis), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 characters:  "¨"

KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001,
    root 0x36, subw 0x1a00002, time 696205801, (34,37), root:(779,277),
    state 0x1, keycode 48 (keysym 0xfe57, dead_diaeresis), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 characters:  "¨"

KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001,
    root 0x36, subw 0x1a00002, time 696206091, (34,37), root:(779,277),
    state 0x1, keycode 50 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 characters:  ""

KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001,
    root 0x36, subw 0x1a00002, time 696206301, (34,37), root:(779,277),
    state 0x0, keycode 38 (keysym 0x61, a), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 characters:  "a"

KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0x1a00001,
    root 0x36, subw 0x1a00002, time 696206371, (34,37), root:(779,277),
    state 0x0, keycode 38 (keysym 0x61, a), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 characters:  "a"

bye
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