Bug#362408: xkb-data: Compose key not working any more in X.Org 7
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 12:05:00PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> OoO En ce doux début de matinée du vendredi 14 avril 2006, vers 08:12,
> David Moreno Garza <damog@damog.net> disait:
>
> > I had the same problem today. I use my right Apple key as a Compose key
> > to accent vowels on an xkb layout.
>
> > I think the problem is a bit on the locales side not being setted.
>
> > Vincent, could you please try to launch xterm as:
>
> > $ LANG=en_US xterm
>
> > And try to make the compose key to work? That is a workaround that
> > worked on my side.
>
> It works for me. In fact, I am using fvwm and xterms started from the
> menu are not working but xterms started from another xterm are working
> fine (same command line arguments). Then, emacs started from one of
> those xterm is working too.
>
> I have tried a diff between env of a working xterm and env of a non
> working xterm and only the WINDOWID changes.
David is surely right, this seems to be a locale issue. Locale
variables are being moved into /etc/default/locale, but all programs
have not yet been updated. If you set locale variables both in
/etc/default/locale and /etc/environment, does everything work
fine?
Denis
Reply to: