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Problem on Ubuntu 8.10: can't type {[]}
Submitted by tomK on Sunday, 16 November, 2008 - 16:43
Hello,

I have a small Eye-wink but difficult problem with my jEdit-editor. I use it now a
few years without big problems. But now it's a little bit more ...

I use it under linux (with windows too, but there are no problems), before with
Ubuntu 7.10, with sun java 5 or 6 (it makes no
difference for me for this problem). And - as german - I have german keypad with
"de-nodeadkeys"-config. With "CtrlAlt-Right 7" for example I get "{" and so one.

Now I changed to Ubuntu 8.10. And there, if I type "CtrlAlt-Right 7" I get "7"
instead of "{"! (it's not really good for programming Eye-wink ) Does anybody have
seen such behavior? It looks as it would ignore
"CtrlAlt-Right"-key. Other applications on this installation do not show such,
there all is fine.

I have tried 4.3pre15 and too 4.3pre13 from official ubuntu package servers.
Same thing. Every time fresh installed (e.g. no ~/.jedit directory) and no
plugins. I'm not sure, if Ubuntu 8.04 is ok or not. I had it only a short time
installed and havn't used jEdit much in this time. But I know, that Ubuntu 7.10
works fine with jEdit.

Maybe it depends on new X server, but I'm not sure and I don't know, how to catch
it. Anybody out there with some suggestions? Some comments in other boards suggests also, that something is broken with sun java under Ubuntu 8.10.

Greetings,
Thomas
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Locale?
by Robert Schwenn on Sun, 16/11/2008 - 20:47
You didn't test other Java applications, did You? So, first try to run the following beanshell command:

Macros.message(view, java.util.Locale.getDefault().toString());

It should show the used locale settings. On my Windows XP machine it shows the message "de_DE". Maybe the JVM at Your Ubuntu isn't set up correctly to use German as default (don't ask me how - I don't know any 'nix).

Second, please check the first lines of jedit's Activity.log for the used Java version and vendor: Is it real SUN...?

Robert
 
Hi Robert, thanks for answ
by tomK on Tue, 18/11/2008 - 18:17
Hi Robert,

thanks for answer. To your questions:

I didn't test other applications. But on other forum (ubuntuusers.de) one reports same problem for an another java application on Ubuntu 8.10 He had also tried OpenJava (with his application) - same problem! It looks as it is something connected with java in common and Ubuntu 8.10.

And I can see with this beanshell-command also de_DE, like on your machine. And the last question: yes it's really sun java.

So I hope, somebody on Ubuntu has a idea, what's wrong. I can't believe, that, if it is really something with java in common, that only a few people have problems. Eclipse for example is also java and it's wide used.

cu,
Thomas
 
Problem fixed
by tomK on Mon, 24/11/2008 - 19:46
Hi,

now I have my problem fixed. It was SCIM. I don't know, how it's happend, but it is ... Eye-wink And SCIM has scrambled my keymap, it was to see with "xmodmap ..." command. One point ist interresting on this, it has only influenced java applikations as jedit, for example, the gnome editor gedit works without this problem.

cu,
Thomas
 
Same problem, same fix
by tig12 on Tue, 10/02/2009 - 09:20
Same for me, on ubuntu 8.10.
I disabled SCIM, and AltGr worked again on JEdit.
Thank you
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