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

[Sebastien Roy]

Jürgen Keil wrote:
>> 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)

Interesting...  Part of the problem, however, is that the behavior was as 
expected for days, then I hit some accidental combination of keys which 
caused this change to suddenly become effective on the fly.  If this were 
some sort of feature, then I'd have expected to have experienced it 
consistently.  Not all of a sudden one day while typing an email message 
in Thunderbird...

-Seb