Re: Is it possible to globally change the text input method?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 17:51, Al Amaral wrote:
> We have a custom X server which replaces XFree86 and currently doesn't
> have the XKeyboard extension (and we can't implement it at this time).
> To get text widgets to work properly we have to change the input method
> from default to X11, else the capslock and numlock keys don't work
> (which sounds like a bug in the gdk libraries).  In any case, we'd
> like to be able to globally change the input method to X11.  Is there
> a way to do this?

Not really sure what you mean "change the input method to X11" . 

But in any case, the problems with no XKB are thought to be
fixed in GTK+-2.2.3.

Regards,
                                                Owen