Dear Ingo, Danke!
On 2/19/20, Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> wrote: > Just to make sure it worked, could you please show the output of: > > $ setxkbmap -query The output is: rules: base model: pc105 layout: us variant: dvp options: compose:ralt > What exactly do you mean by "not able to use"? > If, while xterm is in focus, you press and relese the compose key, > then press and release the first key, then press and release the > second key, then press and release some latin letter key, what > exactly happens after each step? To type for example ø, I press and release the compose key, then press and release the / key, and then press and release the o key. I get /o on xterm, but ø on firefox. > Guessing blindly, the problem might be that while firefox finds a font > to display the character, xterm does not. Or that you have changed > your xterm configuration in some way that disables UTF-8 (it is on > by default). Can you please retry in xterm with a different character > that can be displayed in xterm out of the box, say U+00E5 LATIN > SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE? What happens if you type and release > ralt, then a, then a, then x? xterm can display å too, when I copies it using shift+insert from firefox or other places. xterm can display ø when I copies it using shift+insert from firefox or other places. > If none of the above lets you solve your problem yet, what does the > following command say: > > $ xterm -report-xres > > In an xterm started that way, does the compose key work? > Both with the character you want and with U+00E5 A RING? Ugh. xterm says: xterm: bad command line option "-report-xres" I forgot to report maybe an important piece of information. I use scim to type in Chinese. I use the default xdm. Here is my .xsession: export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM export GTK_IM_MODULE="scim" export QT_IM_MODULE="scim" scim -d setxkbmap -layout us -variant dvp -option compose:ralt exec dbus-launch /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm I was going to ask my questions one by one so that I will not flood the email list with all my questions. But the scim question is the following. Quite the opposite of my compose key problem, I am not able to activate scim (by ctrl + space) on normal GUI programs (firefox, libreoffice, xpdf, keepassxc, emacs-gtk etc). But but but, I am able to activate scim on xterm and type Chinese there. So I have actually been typing æ, ø, å in firefox and copy back to xterm and typing Chinese using scim on xterm and copy back to firefox / libreoffice for like more than half a year.... I had this problem on OpenBSD 6.5 too (I was using OpenBSD like 10 years ago for some time and also in between in the past ten years. I went back, last year, to OpenBSD... Was using NetBSD even longer time ago and started using unix-like system around 2001 or 2002)..... But I did not have this type of scim / compose key problems on Debian, NixOS, Arch Linux, or Void Linux, which are the Linux distributions that I used in the recent years. Good morning, by the way! Yours sincerely, Xianwen
