Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:14:55 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > >> I have trouble entering keyboard compositions in many, but not all >> applications. For example, when entering dead_iota + a (which I have >> configured to give adiaresis in ~/.XCompose) gnome terminal just beeps >> and does nothing. Other affected applications are gedit, icedove and >> LibreOffice. Emacs, on the other hand, does not show any problems and >> correctly inserts adiaresis. > > (...) > > All of the failing apps are GTK2+ based... does it work with another > combination, let's say "<dead_iota> <Shift_L> <a>" (what I'm trying with > that is to find out a possible collision with another system-wide > predefined key combo).
No, none of the composition sequences seem to work. > Hum... maybe I'm guessing too much but, have you tried to setup an "us- > intl¹" keyboard layout? I say this because getting the diaeresis > characters (ä, Ä, ë, Ë...) is easier with it as there is no need to > define specific composing combination :-? When switching to us-intl, I can enter the characters with AltGr. But I don't want to use that. Best, -Nikolaus -- »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« PGP fingerprint: 5B93 61F8 4EA2 E279 ABF6 02CF A9AD B7F8 AE4E 425C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87tydhdj4m....@inspiron.ap.columbia.edu
