Joe Smith <jes <at> martnet.com> writes: > > For the past few years using Gnome on Fedora, I have been able to enter > arbitrary Unicode characters in any Gnome/Gtk application using > Ctrl+Shift+U followed by the character's code point as hex digits. > > I just upgraded to Fedora 13 which includes Gnome 2.30, and this handy > feature seems to have disappeared! > ... > Is there any way to get the old behavior? I was given a method that restores the old behavior for Fedora 13; I expect it will work in F12 also. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=598289 Remove the xim package: $ sudo yum remove gtk2-immodule-xim The script, /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/none.conf, checks whether the xim package is installed and sets GTK_IM_MODULE=gtk-im-context-simple only if xim is not installed. Xim was installed with F13, in an en_US locale, and even though no input method was configured and xim was not active, its presence on the system prevented the gtk-im-context-simple module from being loaded. Removing the xim package will change the default for all users on the system. A particular user should still be able to configure the ibus input methods, but xim will not be available. I can still get characters using the compose key as well. Creating/modifying ~/.{gnomerc,xinputrc,gtkrc,xinit} did not work for me, but I can't say for sure that I correctly spake the necessary incantations ;-) I still don't know if there is any general policy regarding the default input method for Gnome/gtk+. In my experience, many users can benefit from a single, standard, documented method for entering characters by code point; I hope this will be clarified soon. _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
