Custom .XCompose

[Tom H]

On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 4:32 AM, Xen <list at xenhideout.nl> wrote:
>
> So apparently there is a guy who has tried to mimic the Windows behaviour as
> closely as possible.
>
> https://github.com/raelgc/win_us_intl
>
> There is a .XCompose you can download that will (or should) fix all of those
> dead accent issues with 'n and 'r.
>
> It's just that it doesn't work for me and my .XCompose is not even read by
> the system.
>
> So first question:
>
> How do you get the .XCompose read by the system, using either:
>
> - fcitx
> - xim
> - uim
>
> as input method?
>
> Does /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose even get read by the system?
> I don't know...
>
> Last access an hour ago. It is clearly not getting read...
>
> My LANG is en_US.UTF-8 and LC_CTYPE is the same....
>
> What woodwork do I find myself into this time...

You can trace the opening of a terminal and you'll see (as I just did)
that ".XCompose" is loaded.

Check that you have set a compose key either within your DE or with "xmodmap".

Run

xmodmap -pk | grep Multi_key
or
xmodmap -pke | grep Multi_key

to display the key represented by the compose key.