I found the answer. The problem was they
keyboard on my Ubuntu system (System >
Preferences > Keyboard, Layouts tab, layout) had been set to
"USA International" instead of just USA.
Switching the keyboard to USA solved my
problem.
From: gnome-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:gnome-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Quiring, Sam
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 9:30 AM
To: gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: How to turn off compose mode?
Greetings,
I just posted this
to gtk-i18n-list, but I think gnome-list is more
appropriate.
I just started
using a new install of Ubuntu 9.04 this morning. I am getting very
confusing (for me) behavior just typing into the Term (Gnome Terminal)
window. The first thing I noticed was that single quote (') was behaving
strange: If I type one quote, nothing appears on the command line.
Figuring I had not hit the key hard enough, I typed it again and a an end quote
character appeared (looks like the opposite of the begin quote (`)). This
end-quote is not treated as a normal quote (') character by command line
processing. For example if I issue the command:
> echo
'foo'
foo
But if I enter this
command (using <end-quote> to represent the single end-quote character
which-I-cannot-type-into-this-email):
> echo
<end-quote>foo<end-quote>
<end-quote>foo<end-quote>
The quotes are not
stripped off.
I'm having a
similiar issue with the double quote (") character. I have to type it
twice for something to appear and what appears is an end-double-quote, the
opposite of a begin-double-quote. Also, when I type a tilde(~) nothing
happens, I have to type two tildes to get one to appear on my command
line.
Wow. All I
want to do is type in normal commands where the text I type in is the same as
the text on my keyboard.
I've spent almost
two hours trying to figure out what is wrong. It looks like my terminal is
in "compose mode", something I had never heard of before this morning.
When I use the Vi editor, it is also in compose mode.
How can I turn this
behavior off? Why is it turned on?
-Sam
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