Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 11:10:17 -0400
Subject: Re: Pipe (|) symbol under spanish keybord in xterm
From: markjreed@gmail.com
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Gery Herbozo Jimenez wrote:
I've been working for a while with a spanish keyboard
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-non-U.S.-keyboard-layout
and up to now I don't know how to get the pipe (|) symbol in my xterm terminal. However, I
do get it in the bash terminal without problems using Ctrl + Alt + 1. When I follow this step
in the xterm I get this instead of the pipe: (arg: 1). What does it mean?
In readline's emacs mode, holding down the alt key while typing
numbers is how you enter a repeat count for an editing command - e.g.
alt-3 alt-f (hold down alt and type 3f) to go forward three words. The
"(arg: 1)" means you've typed a repeat count of "1" so far (you could
add more digits to make it "10" or something). The control key is not
contributing anything in this instance.
It seems X is not recognizing your keyboard layout. I'd try adding
"-xkblayout es" to the X server command line, as indicated in the
above FAQ entry.