XIM Compose Sequences Fail To Work

roryyamm commented 10 months ago

Using the legacy XIM system (via the uim-xim bridge), trying to input compose sequences in XNedit does not work. Attempting to use the compose key simply outputs the characters in the sequence. This may be a duplicate of a SourceForge issue, but that seems related to compose sequences in the context of macros.

OS: Debian GNU/Linux trixie/sid x86_64 Version info:

XNEdit 1.5.2
Oct 5, 2023

     Built on: Linux, x86-64, GNU C
     Built at: Nov  7 2023, 22:23:52
   With Motif: (Untested) 2.3.8 [@(#)Motif Version 2.3.8]
Running Motif: 2.3 [unknown]
       Server: The X.Org Foundation 12101008
       Visual: 24-bit TrueColor (ID 0x21, Default)
       Locale: en_CA.UTF-8

Output of setxkbmap:

rules:      evdev
model:      sun_type6_usb
layout:     us
options:    lv3:ralt_switch,compose:menu,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp

I'll try to reproduce the error with less esoteric hardware soon.

unixwork commented 10 months ago

Probably not a hardware problem, also I can test it with a sun type 7 keyboard.

Does compose work in other motif applications? And can you test it with this environment variable?

export XMODIFIERS=@im=uim

roryyamm commented 10 months ago

…Ah. That seems to have solved it. Seems my window manager doesn't set that.

Alex-Kent commented 9 months ago

@unixwork Methinks this bug can be closed. (Just to keep things tidy)

unixwork / xnedit

XIM Compose Sequences Fail To Work #129