I'm on Ubuntu Gnome. I tried installing Kate (is this GTK+?) to test.
I used Gentium font. My xmodmap still works with the ₱ sign. I have
SCIM also for Japanase, IPA and TEX direct inputs.

Hope this helps.

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Rafael Sevilla <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:48:02 +0900
> "Slim Joe" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I know Gnome keeps its own keyboard mappings. But for
>> fixing it in plain X, I think you have to modify some
>> locale files under:
>>
>> /usr/share/X11/locale/
>>
>> In particular take a look at the output of:
>>
>> ls /usr/share/X11/locale/*/Compose
>>
>
> Well, I tried doing this too, but it didn't work.  In particular, it
> fails to work with GTK+ apps.  A little digging revealed that GTK+
> actually keeps its own private, hard-coded table of compose key
> sequences, which is, IMHO, stupid.  I don't want to have to patch GTK+
> to do something like this!  Using GTK_IM_MODULE=xim makes changes to the
> Compose file reflect again. However, I don't want to do this either
> ecause that would also prevent me from using SCIM, which I rely on to
> input Japanese text.  Alas.
>
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