Bug#577852: libgtk2.0-common: dead_stroke has no visible effect

[Josselin Mouette]

Le jeudi 15 avril 2010 à 09:04 +0200, Mario Frasca a écrit :
> I don't use many gtk applications, just gnome-terminal and sometimes
> nautilus.  this affects both.  Emacs and xterm (not gtk) are unaffected.
> 
> I use dead_stroke in a keymap table file that I pass to xmodmap and I
> don't manage to obtain any visible effect.

This is because GTK+ uses its own composition tables and extends them in
its own way.

If you want to use the X input method in an application, you can
right-click, select “Input method”, then “X input method”.

You can also select it by setting GTK_IM_MODULE=xim in the environment.

Cheers,
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