Re: Problem getting compose-key to work with .XCompose

[Heimo Stranner <heimo@stranner.org>]

Thanks, your link led me to installing uim which fixed the problem.

On 2013-09-29 01:14, Siard wrote:
> Heimo Stranner wrote:
>> I created a ~/.Xcompose file containing the following:
>>
>>> include "/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose"
>>>
>>> <Multi_key> <slash> <underscore> <equal> : "≢" U2262     # Not identical to
>>> <Multi_key> <slash> <backslash>          : "⋀" U22C0     # N-ary locical and
>>> <etc.>
>>
>> I restarted X, rebooted but when I use one of the keycombos from
>> above i only get a beep sound, but no character is inserted.
>> I also tried pasting that lines directly at the end of
>> /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose. Same result.
> 
> This seems not to be working because of some bug. Here's one of several
> explanations that can be found: http://sourceforge.net/p/scim/bugs/73/
> 
> However, I do have this working if I paste those customizations
> directly somewhere in /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose
> provided that:
> a) scim is uninstalled;
> b) ~/.XCompose is removed.
> 
> So, for the time being, that could be a solution.
> 
>