On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:40:42PM +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> I'm using a customized /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/lt_LT.UTF-8/Compose
> file to enter a different number of accented letters (a ogonek, c caron,
> e dot etc) with a single dead key (dead_tilde).  This worked fine in all
> X11 apps.  Then quite some time ago (somehere around 1.0 or 1.2) Mozilla
> stopped using my customized Compose file (e.g. dead_tilde + e now
> produces eacute instead of eogonek that is specified in my Compose
> customizations).  Later I noticed the same problem with OpenOffice and
> now I see the same problem with all applications that use Gtk version 2.
> Gtk 1.2, KDE 3, and traditional X11 apps seem to work fine.
> 
> Am I missing some new convention for determining the behavior of dead
> keys, or is this just a pervasive bug shared by Gtk2, Mozilla and
> OpenOffice.org?

  It's Not A Bug, It's A Feature. (TM)

  GTK+ 2.x uses by default its own input methods for character
composition. Nevertheless, you can force GTK+ applications to use the
Xlib composition mechanisms by setting GTK_IM_MODULE=xim among your
environment variables.

-- 
Vasilis Vasaitis
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