On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 14:55, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 12:42:18AM +0200, Shot wrote: > > ...uxterm, you say. This gets interesting - uxterm works for > > me according to the compose maps, that is it seems to be using > > en_US.UTF-8/Compose; I *can* get per mille, I *can't* get aogonek. > > Does this mean there's something broken in GTK/GNOME? Mozilla, Galeon, > > gnome-terminal: all broken. xterm, uxterm, OpenOffice.org Writer: > > all working. > > Jeff Licquia told me this has to do with the GNOME input method you have > configured. > > Jeff, can you mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a little more > elaboration?
Sorry for the late reply; it appears that Debian's mail system held onto these messages for a while, so I just now got them. GTK+ has its own input method framework that is separate from the X input methods. This is necessary because GTK+ is supposed to be independent of X. The default input method is, of course, Latin. When implementing this method, the GTK+ people focused on ISO-8859-1, and did not implement many of the other Latin character sets. This is why GTK-based programs seem not to be able to type characters that other pure X programs can. There are several things you can do about the problem. All of them involve using a different GTK+ input method. You can test these by opening some GTK+ app that takes input, such as gedit. Right-click on the edit box, and there should be a submenu for "Input Methods". The new input method should show up in that submenu. - Get a better GTK+ input method. The gtk-im-extra Sourceforge project (http://gtk-im-extra.sourceforge.net/) contains a Latin Plus input method, for example. While you're at it, you might also lobby the GTK+ people to include gtk-im-extra, and make Latin Plus the default. - There are alternative input method projects out there that provide GTK+ IM shims; look for the packages iiimgcf, scim-gtk2-immodule, and uim-gtk2.0 in testing/unstable. Most of these, though, are aimed at non-Latin issues, so I can't tell you if any of them would be appropriate. - Additionally, GTK+ ships with a XIM shim module. This is the solution I've implemented. If you want to make some other input method the default, edit /etc/environment, and set the environment variable GTK_IM_MODULE there to the input method module you want ("xim" for the XIM shim). Of course, you can do the same thing for just yourself by setting that environment variable in .profile, .bashrc, or whatever.
