For me, the behaviour is completely the opposite of those reported by others:
Apps with Compose key working: - Gnome Terminal, Dash search field Apps with Compose key ineffective - Gedit, LibreOffice, Chrome, Firefox But when creating a new user and copying my .XCompose to him, for that user the Compose key works in all applications. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1573755 Title: Compose and dead keys stopped working with XIM after upgrade to 16.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1573755/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs