Re: Using .XCompose
On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 04:37:19PM +0000, Ajith R wrote:
> Hi Zenaan,
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> > Under the "Layout" tab, I have the option for "Compose key" - this is a drop down list, and I chose the "Scroll Lock" key as my compose key.
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> Similar options are there for KDE too. I tried setting the Compose key from the KDE settings menu after trying xmodmap -e "keysym Caps_Lock = Multi_key" suggested by Greg. My .XCompose file is:
> include "%L"
> <Multi_key> <s> <x> : "✄" U2704 # WHITE SCISSORS
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> Now, things are even more strange. When I press the Caps Lock, a strange character appears. (I copy pasted it, searched the net and found it to be unicode compose character.) Then when I type s, the Caps Lock light gets switched on and the character S (caps) appears on screen. Then when I type X, the compose character and S become invisible and x/X doesn't appear. When I change focus to another window, the terminal in which I was typing shows the compose character and S.
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> This behaviour has not changed after I unchecked the settings through KDE settings menu, after restarting computer, re-issuing xmodmap command or changing the layout to us. The same sequence is seen with typing in Kate as well. Even when I use Scroll Lock as the compose key, the situation is only different in that the s is not capitalised.
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> Any idea what might be wrong?
It sounds like something is fundamentally wrong with your keymap.
I suggest starting again, resetting everything back to your chosen defaults at install - reset your modified keymap file back to whatever you copied to begin the exercise, and test that compose is working as it should.
Then, make no more than a single change, apply and test that single change. Don't move forward till the one change is working.
That's what I did (although it's been a 2 or 3 years since I dabbled) - I had one tiny little brace missing at one stage, and when you don't see it, you just don't see it, so after that I brutally realigned everything with obnoxious spaces, so that all tha braces, and commas, lined up - THAT solved the accidental missing brace which never bit me again :/
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