I have the xfree86 rules in my configuration. Hmmm. Do you have other rules defined? There must be some, and I think xfree86 is the default set.
Do you have compose when using gnome-terminal? I have it with gnome-terminal, but not with Konsole. Yet, from either Konsole or gnome-terminal, if I issue an 'xev' command, and move the cursor into the black square, pressing my defined compose key reports Multi_key, as does Shift-AltR.
What's your situation? It looks as though your AltR is defined as a ISO_LEVEL3_Shift, AKA AltGr. On my GB keyboard (the laptop), AltR+4 gives me the Euro, but not on my US keyboard.
AbiWord, as with you, gives me some compose functionality (Ã {e-acute} for example) but not the Euro. I think this may be a character set or font issue, with AbiWord happy with iso8859-1, but not iso8859-15.
OpenOffice 1.1 give me NO Compose functionality at all. The help advises setting SAL_ALTGR_COMPOSE, but if I do that, the rest of my compose functionality is lost in other apps. I don't know why.
The documentation for XKB is in a lot better condition than it was originally, which is not to say that it is clear. See /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/README*.
I have just spent some happy hours hacking on the definitions to try to get AltR+4 to produce the EuroSign. No luck. If you grep for EuroSign in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols, they are all over the place. If you try changing the AE04 key definition in iso9995-3 to include the EuroSign, nothing happens. It seems that any changes I make are ignored, which suggests precompiled keymap files. I don't know where they are, however.
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This is a total shambles, and it seems to me to have been created by Redhat as a testbed for working out the fontconfig and utf-8 issues before presenting them to their corporate customers. Forget that "community" garbage. Nobody asked me if I wanted to tear my hair out for months trying to get my previous level of functionality back. And no-one from Redhat has stuck his or her head up in response to any of my requests for assistance on this (or any other) issue. The funny thing is, I actually paid for RH9, instead of getting second sourced CDs.
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Peter
Kent Borg wrote:
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:07:21PM +1000, Peter B. West wrote:
I believe that xmodmap may have some nasty interactions with xkb. Try modifying the /etc/X11/XF86Config file to include (assuming that you have the same keyboard as me)
Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "en_US" Option "XkbOptions" "compose:menu"
The critical settings are en_US and compose:menu. The en_US triggers the inclusion of the ISO9995-3 compose set. You can do this and restart X.
Interesting. I edited my /etc/bashrc to take out my:
xmodmap -e "keysym Menu = Multi_key"
And I edited my /etc/X11/XF86Config. The XkbModel was already pc105, the layout had been simply "us". Also, there was a:
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
that I had to comment out to get any composing to work.
Here is a fragment of what I have now (commented lines removed):
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "en_US" Option "XkbOptions" "compose:menu" EndSection
I still can't get a euro character. I am using Abiword as a test bed and I can compose other characters there. Also, my right Alt key seems to have become a dead key. For example alt ' e yields a ^ over an e. But compose ^ e also does that, so I am not sure I am ahead, as my fingers think that alt key is meta in emacs.
Is this stuff documented anywhere? Last I tired to make sense of the XF86Config file I was not very successful in finding much.
Thanks,
-kb
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