Re: Compose key ignored

["Etsushi Kato" <ek kato gmail com>]

On 2/23/07, Leonardo Boiko <leoboiko gmail com> wrote:
> Hi.  I'm sorry if this was asked before, but it seems like I can't
> search the list right now.  I have a few customizations in
> ~/.XCompose, which works everywhere except in GTK+ apps.  After
> googling around I found out I should try the XIM input method, and I
> did.  Problem is, XIM IM under GTK seems to simply ignore my Compose
> key (Multi_key, which I map to right Control through xmodmap).  Is
> there a workaround? GTK+ 2.8.20-5 here, debian sid, en_US.UTF-8.
>
> Also, out of curiosity, are there plans for GTK to read ~/.XCompose or
> at least to provide some way of customizing compose combinations?

One another way to enable ~/.XCompose in GTK+ is installing uim and
use its module with GTK_IM_MODULE=uim.

Cheers,
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Etsushi Kato
ek kato gmail com