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

[Jürgen Keil]

Sebastien wrote:
> 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...

Yep, I agree.  If it was running fine for days and the strange "compose"
behavior started unexpectedly, it must be something different than the
"sundeadkeys" configuration feature that I'm getting with german usb
layout keyboards.

The "sundeadkeys" xkb configuration can be observed immediately
when the X11 server and dtlogin starts.  In the dtlogin login screen,
you don't get a character when you the the accent chars ` or ', or tilde ~.
 
 
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