Knoppix 6.4.4 and the X11 Compose Key
I am using the EN MAXI edition of Knoppix 6.4.4 installed to USB.
I have tried configuring the Menu key as the X11Compose key with:
XKBOPTIONS="terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,grp:alt_caps_toggle,shift:breaks_caps,compose:menu"
in the file /etc/default/keyboard. The first three special key
definitions all appear to work. I get a dead-key effect when I press
the Menu key but not the composed characters I was hoping for.
If have tried the equivalent configuration of KDE through the System
Settings app with a similar lack of success.
I have used the Menu key as a compose key under both Lenny and Squeeze
and so was surprised it does not work under Knoppix 6 as well.
I know Debian uses UTF-8 locales by default but the support for this
under Knoppix 6 is very limited. Out of curiosity I did try booting
with lang=fi-utf-8 and, sure enough, the compose key worked (but with
some interesting Finnish results). However, I am under the impression
that UTF-8 isn't essential for the compose key functionality.
I did ask on the knoppix.net forum but even utu was unable to help.
Wondering if this might be a long standing undocumented feature of
Knoppix, I boot up Knoppix 5.3.3, edited xorg.conf to define the compose
key and restarted X11using ctrl-alt-backspace and the compose key worked
as expected.
This suggests Knoppix 6 is not behaving as it should. If this is the
case, is there a (non-Finnish) workaround ?
Regards,
Paul
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