On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 06:00:22PM +0100, Dominik Bruhn wrote:
Hy, as mentioned before I use xmonad and xmonad-contrib from darcs.
The Prompt-Plugin (the problem occurs both in ssh-prompt and append to file) got a bug imho: By looking into the code I found out that you can exit the prompt with a CTRL+c and move in the prompt like on Bash using CTRL+a and CTRL+e. All these command dont work at all, alle command which use a CTRL Modifier generate strange characters in the Commandprompt but dont do anything. For example the CTRL+c generates a strange chineese looking charakter, the CTRL+a produces a black dot.
Perhaps its a problem with my setup: The whole system is UTF-8, but in all other applications (bash, urxvt for example) these shortcuts work so I think its a problem with xmonad.
Can anybody help me with this?
Well, I'm using an utf-8 locale too but this is not an issue, since xmonad doesn't use the locale setting. Here I cannot reproduce your problem, but I can remember a couple of times when this problem appeared, but that was an X server problem and, upon an X server restart, the problem was gone. As far a I remember, xev reported strange key board events and that was the issue, but I'm not sure. Can you try to use "xev" to find out which key events you X server is producing? One more information: did you compile xmonad-contrib with XFT support? Thanks Andrea