Dead keys not working in KDE

[Michael Schuerig <michael@schuerig.de>]

I'm trying to get dead keys to work in KDE (all the latest unstable 
packages, incl. xserver-xorg), but don't have any success. When I type 
<acute> followed by 'e', the first key stroke inserts nothing, the 
second inserts a plain 'e'. '`', '^', '~' are inserted immediately.

That behavior is specific to KDE apps. In xterm, say, dead keys, and 
compose as well, behave as expected. In the KDE control center I've set 
country to "Germany"; language is set to "US English".

Michael


Excerpt from /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "de"
        Option          "XkbOptions"    "compose:menu"
EndSection

$ locale
LANG=POSIX
LC_CTYPE=de_DE.iso885915@euro
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.iso885915@euro
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.iso885915@euro
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER=de_DE.iso885915@euro
LC_NAME=de_DE.iso885915@euro
LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.iso885915@euro
LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.iso885915@euro
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.iso885915@euro
LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.iso885915@euro
LC_ALL=

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Michael Schuerig
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