[desktop-discuss] Gnome thinks that my compose key is stuck

[Jürgen Keil]

> The symptom is that if I type a character like ´, I need to press it 
> twice (the first time I press it, there´s no output at all).  If I press 
> the characters ´ and e in succession, it´s as if I had the compose key 
> pressed and I end up with é.  Is this a known bug?

I think this is a feature, not a bug.  The Xorg server defaults to
use the "sundeadkeys" XkbVariant; in the past, the Xsun server had
the deadkeys feature disabled in the default setup.  (At least for
german layout usb keyboards)


I'm currently using a change like this to get back the old Xsun
behavior, for a german layout (de) usb keyboard:

% diff -u /tmp/xorg /usr/X11/lib/X11/xkb/rules/xorg
--- /tmp/xorg   So Feb  6 23:50:55 2005
+++ /usr/X11/lib/X11/xkb/rules/xorg     So Feb  6 23:48:46 2005
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@
   $sun_type6   us      =       sun/us(type6)+sun/solaris(defaults)
   $sun_type6   jp      =       sun/us(type6)+sun/jp(type6)
   $sun_type6   $sun_t6_custom  =       sun/us(type6)+sun/%l(type6)
+  $sun_type6   de      =       sun/us(type6)+%l(nodeadkeys)
   $sun_type6   *       =       sun/us(type6)+%l(sundeadkeys)
   pc98         nec/jp  =       nec/jp(pc98)
   abnt2                br      =       pc/pc(pc104)+pc/br
 
 
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