OK, this tip lead me to a workaround: [1] > Use the uim GTK input method (install uim, then export GTK_IM_MODULE=uim > in your ~/.gnomerc; thanks to uim’s author, Etsushi Kato, for pointing > me his solution).
I've verified this works. Cheers, Edward [1] https://github.com/leoboiko/pointless-xcompose Excerpts from Matthew Flatt's message of 2014-01-11 18:43:04 -0800: > Yes, I think it's the toolkit. Racket builds on Gtk for its GUI on > Unix/X, and my impression is that Gtk does not use XCompose. > > At Fri, 10 Jan 2014 17:24:38 -0800, "Edward Z. Yang" wrote: > > Hey folks, > > > > I was attempting to use some of my XCompose bindings while in > > DrRacket, but it didn't work. While strace'ing DrRacket, I noticed > > that it wasn't looking at my XCompose configuration. Does anyone > > know why this might be? Does it have to do with the GUI toolkit Racket > > is using? > > > > Edward > > ____________________ > > Racket Users list: > > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users