Bug#226301: metacity - breaks aterm input when using l10n

[Filip Van Raemdonck]

Package: metacity
Version: 1:2.6.3-1

Hi,

Since a few weeks I have changed my keyboard from belgian (azerty) to a US
(qwerty) one. I am using pc104/us_intl keyboard layout in X. Obviously, I
left my locale settings unchanged, they are still at nl_BE@euro as they
were before. (~/.gnome2/gdm lists "lang=nl_BE.ISO-8859-15@euro", I suppose
gdm expanded the locale alias before saving)

In almost any X11 app, I can either hit the ' (single-quote) or "
(double-quote, same key but with shift) key - it's the one next to the
enter key on this US keyboard - and I get the quote I want.
However, not so in a freshly spawn aterm window.

I soon discovered that this only happens in aterm windows which are spawn
through gnome, somehow - e.g. by using the menu entry, or the run command,
or an app-launcher on my panel. When I spawn another aterm from within an
existing aterm window, it works just fine.

Now since this morning I started using xfwm4 as my window manager, and lo
and behold I can spawn new aterms from the gnome panel or app-launchers as
much as I want, and they too work just fine, displaying quotes as I type
them (well, they're dead keys so the space is still needed obviously).
Apparently the buggy behaviour I saw before had something to do with gnome
spawn aterms _if_ using metacity.


Regards,

Filip

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux orion 2.6.0-test11-evms.2.6-t8 #1 Wed Dec 3 09:55:37 CET 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=nl_BE@euro, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE@euro

Versions of packages metacity depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.4.1-1       The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                      2.3.2.ds1-10  GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4                2.4.0.1-3     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.2.3-1       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.2.4-3       The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii  libmetacity0               1:2.6.3-1     Common library of lightweight GTK2
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.8.3-1     Libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.2.5-2.1     Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                   1.7-4         lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libstartup-notification0   0.5-4         library for program launch feedbac
ii  sgml-base                  1.21          utilities to maintain SGML catalog
ii  xlibs                      4.3.0-0pre1v5 X Window System client libraries m

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