On 21 Mar 2000, at 7:16, Martin Husemann wrote:

> I'm using stock xsrc with -current. /etc/XF86Config contains
> 
> Section "Keyboard"
>     Protocol	"Standard"
>     AutoRepeat	500 5
>     XkbRules    "xfree86"
>     XkbModel    "pc102"
>     XkbLayout   "de"
>     XkbVariant  "basic"
>     XkbOptions  ""
> EndSection
> 
> Kernel console driver is wscons.
> 
> When I enter ~ (as in : "cd ~martin/isdn") nothing happens: I have to
> press the spacebar before the ~ character appears.
> 
> And, probably a side effect, I can't enter ~ at all in Netscape.
> 
> Is this locale related? Our libc locale stuff and X11 locale stuff
> doesn't cooperate well (I have to choose: have elm work or get
> warnings from every X11 program)
> 
> Do others experience the same?
> 
> 
> Martin

Hi,

try 

XkbVariant "nodeadkeys"

mike