On Saturday 02 June 2001 12:36, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:59:06PM -0400, Ronald Florence wrote:
> > I'm in trouble with compose keys [...]
> > This feature works in all of the program I use under X, but does not
> > work under LyX: if I press the sequence above I obtain "`a" printed in
> > the LyX window.
> >
> > You don't say what OS or window-manager you're using. I've sometimes
> > seen that problem with CDE on Solaris, where the compose key works
> > with all X programs except LyX. The fix here was to put `LANG=en_US'
> > in ~/.dtprofile. You might try a similar approach to indicate to the
> > window-manager that you're using a US keyboard.
>
> First of all, tnx for the answer.
> I'm using Debian/GNU Linux, with kernel version 2.4.3, LyX version
> 1.1.5fix2. I'm using as window manager sawfish 0.38 and gnome 1.4.0.2.
>
> I guess that ~/.dtprofile is a conf file of CDE, I've take a look at
> gnome and sawfish configurations, but I found none about LANG variable,
> I think that them inherit the LANG setting from the LANG environment
> variable.
>
> The variable LANG on my system is set as en_US and exported to all apps
> (e.g. StarOffice and mutt works well with compose), do I need something
> else to obtain compose work under LyX?
Jean-Marc's solution to my Turkish keyboard problem might do the trick - set
the LC_COLLATE variable to en_US or C
robin
