libinput / weston-terminal : missing the caret char in the terminal (^)

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 13:15:48 +0200
Christian Hartmann <cornogle at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi list,
> hi Peter and Bill,
> 
> I actually did not have the possibility to enter the caret
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret) char within the weston-terminal.
> Does anybody have an idea why or what is missing?? Or does anybody
> else have this issue ?? ( I have not looked into bugzilla but no entry
> found)
> 
> I think many people need this char for example to search strings from
> a beginning of a line etc.
> 
> I am using almost git versions for the weston build(s) running under
> CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core) since more than a half year now,
> compiling from time to time new, but this char was missing from my
> first experiments until now,
> as I am writing to you here.
> 
> If its a bug/missing code, who can help or if I would try it myself,
> where to start looking ?

Hi,

could it be something to do with dead keys?

Using a Finnish keyboard, I seem to have 'keymap_layout=fi(nodeadkeys)'
in my weston.ini, I think because I wante to type the tilde.

This shouldn't affect the x11-backend of weston, though.


Thanks,
pq