On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 02:09:30PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: ..[snip]..
> I was looking at the Compose file because I am trying to understand > keyboard input. My keyboard is set for us_intl, with a lot of "dead > keys". All of the combinations (I think) in the Compose file, including > some very complicated ones, work in joe (on an xterm with Unicode font) > and in Openoffice. However, in other programs (like Mozilla, bluefish, > the input window of gucharmap) only a small subset of the combinations > work. For instance, o with macron (AltGr-minus-o) works in all programs, > while o with breve (AltGr-left parenthesis-o) works only in joe and > Openoffice. In other programs you hear a beep, and no character appears. > > Why do the programs behave differently with respect to keyboard input? > Is there a "cure"? Programs that use the GTK+ library use GTK+'s own composition mechanism by default, instead of the one supplied by X. You can switch that temporarily for a text box, by right clicking on it and selecting Input Methods -> X Input Method. Or, you can switch it permanently for all applications, by setting GTM_IM_MODULE=xim among your environment variables. -- Vasilis Vasaitis "A man is well or woe as he thinks himself so." -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
