Bug#600280: keyboard-configuration: Setting a compose key with the debconf question does not set a compose key

[Maik Zumstrull <maik.zumstrull@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>]

Anton Zinoviev wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 04:05:18PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > 
> > Maik Zumstrull, le Fri 15 Oct 2010 15:24:47 +0200, a écrit :
> > > All I know is, I set Right Logo to be Compose with
> > > dpkg-reconfigure and it didn't work, set it again and it didn't
> > > work, and rebooted and it still does not work.
> > 
> > That works here. Please provide your /etc/default/keyboard, your
> > /etc/X11/xorg.conf if you have one, and the output of setxkbmap
> > -print in the X session.

ry177@rz-nethiwi:~/ > cat /etc/default/keyboard 
# If you change any of the following variables and HAL and X are
# configured to use this file, then the changes will become visible to
# X only if HAL is restarted.  In Debian you need to run
# /etc/init.d/hal restart

# The following variables describe your keyboard and can have the same
# values as the XkbModel, XkbLayout, XkbVariant and XkbOptions options
# in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="de"
XKBVARIANT="nodeadkeys"
XKBOPTIONS="compose:rwin"

# If you don't want to use the XKB layout on the console, you can
# specify an alternative keymap.  Make sure it will be accessible
# before /usr is mounted.
# KMAP=/etc/console-setup/defkeymap.kmap.gz
ry177@rz-nethiwi:~/ > cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf      
cat: /etc/X11/xorg.conf: No such file or directory
ry177@rz-nethiwi:~/ > setxkbmap -print
xkb_keymap {
	xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwertz)"	};
	xkb_types     { include "complete"	};
	xkb_compat    { include "complete"	};
	xkb_symbols   { include "pc+de(nodeadkeys)+inet(evdev)"	};
	xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc105)"	};
};
ry177@rz-nethiwi:~/ > 

> And please tell us what you think the Compose key should do.

I would expect that if I press
Compose, Shift-2 (" on German keyboard), a
I would get an ä. Instead, I get "a (no composition effect).