Dear Fred, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote:
Hi. I have an US international keyboard and i am having trouble using the cedilla symbol. It works fine on xterm but does not work on GNOME applications... I have the us_intl keyboard layout on XF86Config and on the GNOME keyboard settings i have set the US with deadkeys layout. (...)
I think this a common "problem" (just a different default, actually) for GTK applications. Try adding:
export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim to your ".bash_profile". HTH, Luis