keyboard mapping problem under X

[Bruno Boettcher <bboett@bboett.adlp.org>]

Hello

i have a problem on my debian machines lately concerning the keymapping
of the keyboard...
i use, whilst living in France, a german keyboard... 
from the beginning the default setting of no-dead-keys was annoying, but
with a leattle tweakiing and configuring i could get rid of that
annoying switch....

now it seems impossible to activate the dead-keys...

as usual i reset the console keymap to use the normal de-latin1 mapping,
   and on the console i have the dead-keys
   but as of lately under X there seems no way to activate them....

i edited the xorg.conf, also found on old discussions
/etc/default/console-setup where indeed was the dreaded
nodeadkeys-switch

i even made a grep on whole /etc to track down further occurences of
that damned setting, but couldn't find none....

still, dead-keys aren't working....

so, what possibilities remain to activate them? without redefining a
whole new keymapping, especially since the system seems to have changed?

-- 
ciao bboett
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