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I often hit shift+space by accident (while typing in English) and brings the application to a halt. <snip>
In my .xinitrc... ------------------ export LANG="ja_JP.UTF-8" export XMODIFIERS="@im=kinput2" xmodmap -e 'keycode 115 = Kanji' kinput2 -xim -kinput -canna & ---------------------------- The xmodmap command will map the kanji key to the Windows key, then you have to dump the shift-space combo edit this file... /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Kinput2 and comment out the following lines with bangs... ------------------------- *ConversionStartKeys: \ Shift<Key>space \n\ Ctrl<Key>Kanji -------------------------- That would solve your shift-space problem.