Compose key in Ubuntu 8.10 vs. Ubuntu 9.04

[John D Lamb]

On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 20:45 +0200, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> I have four machines: One with Ubuntu 8.10 and the other three with
> Ubuntu 9.04. Here are some examples of the Compose key output at the
> Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Ubuntu 8.10:
> Combination: 9.04 - 8.10
> Compose c o: © - ǒ
> Compose o c: © - ©
> Compose . .: ˙ - …
> 
> Well, I guess there are more differences, but these will do.
> Can anyone give me some suggestions WHY this happens?

Have a look at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ComposeKey#Compose%
20key It looks like a change in Gnome means that it sets the compose key
in a different way. You can change this by editing ~./gnomerc and
putting in the line
export GTK_IM_MODULE="xim"

Then when you restart Gnome, it will choose according to your input
locale—see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Locale for how to identify
this.

> This makes the Compose key somewhat more useless in Ubuntu 9.04 than
> in Ubuntu 8.10, I think, if this is a Ubuntu 8.10 vs. Ubuntu 9.04
> issue, that is.

I haven’t worked out all the details, but this appears closer to 8.04
and can be configured further.

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JDL