rxvt-unicode and ISO 14755 mode

Thursday, October 11. 2007

rxvt-unicode and ISO 14755 mode

Now that my (and pretty much every other) machine uses UTF-8 by default, I was pretty much forced to ditch rxvt in favour of rxvt-unicode. Unfortunately the rxvt-unicode authors think attaching some keycap picture insert mode to the Ctrl-Shift key combination (which is easy to hit by accident) would be HANDY. Even handier, it can only be disabled at compile time.

Thanks for nothing guys, I really hope there's at least one person on this planet who agrees that this is handy ... I'm afraid most people who accidentally hit Ctrl-Shift every few minutes don't agree.

So, behold:

CODE:

wilmer@ruby:~/bin$ cat fix-rxvt.sh
#!/bin/sh -ex
cd `mktemp -d /tmp/rxvt.XXXXXX`
apt-get source rxvt-unicode
sudo apt-get build-dep rxvt-unicode
cd rxvt-unicode-*/
perl -pi -e 's/--enable-iso14755/--disable-iso14755/g' debian/rules
dch -n 'ISO 14755/Keycap mode SUCKS!!!'
fakeroot debian/rules binary
sudo dpkg -i ../rxvt-unicode-lite*deb

For all you Debian+rxvt-unicode users out there waiting for this bug to be fixed... :-)

[edit]Added dch command to make sure apt-get doesn't reinstall the original package every time.[/edit]

Posted by Wilmer van der Gaast in Linux at 10:22 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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I thought I'll never get rid of it. THANK YOU!

#1 Albert on 2007-10-24 21:57 (Reply)

I agree 100% with your comments. Mapping CTRL-SHIFT is bothering me too, as I am using dwm [suckless.org] and using CTRL/SHIFT/MOD to handle all soft of window related activities.

Remark: I noticed that your script requires 'dch' which is available in the package 'devscripts'. Usually not installed by default (at least in Ubuntu).

Thx again. :-)

#2 Henrik Holst (Homepage) on 2008-02-11 23:35 (Reply)

Bah, then the Ctrl-Shift thing is even more annoying indeed. FWIW, see the Debian bug I linked to in the post. Now only the -ml version of the package has this shite enabled. :-)

#2.1 Wilmer on 2008-02-12 22:04 (Reply)

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