[indiana-discuss] Input Manager gone awry

Sebastien Roy Sebastien.Roy at Sun.COM
Thu May 1 08:45:19 PDT 2008


On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 11:05 -0400, Sebastien Roy wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 23:59 -0400, Sebastien Roy wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 22:27 -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:
> > > I noticed that somehow I kept switching the input manager into latin
> > > mode so that I was unable to type quotation marks without hitting the
> > > same key twice.
> > > 
> > > I ended up having to disable the input manager completely because it
> > > kept getting in my way.
> > ...
> > > Anyone else seen this or agree?
> > 
> > Yes, and yes.  The "latin mode" (whatever that is) is enabled with
> > Ctrl-Space, and I accidentally turn this on all of the time while using
> > Emacs.  Try providing some input to desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org, I
> > believe the folks responsible for the input switcher thing are there.
> 
> And for a reference to past discussions regarding the evidently
> controversial default hotkey of "Ctrl-Space", see the following thread
> on desktop-discuss from March 2005:

s/2005/2007/

> 
> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=156182𦈖
> 
> Which resulted in the following being filed:
> 
> 6612087 GNOME gives the impression that the compose key is stuck
> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6612087
> 
> -Seb
> 
> 
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