Bug#410380: gnome-keyboard-properties: setting Compose key is ignored

[Andreas Zwinkau]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:55:46 +0100
Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:

> tag 410380 unreproducible
> thanks
> 
> Le samedi 10 février 2007 à 11:22 +0100, Andreas Zwinkau a écrit :
> > Package: gnome-control-center
> > Version: 1:2.14.2-6
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > gnome-keyboard-properties gives various options to set the Compose key
> > position, but setting any of them them has no effect.
> 
> I'm afraid I can't reproduce this at all. Which keymap are you using?
> Does changing the keymap itself work? Is there any relevant message in
> the ~/.xsession-errors file? Is gnome-settings-daemon correctly running?
> Is it raining outside?
Yes, it's raining for days now :(

$ cat ~/.xsession-errors
[...]
trying /home/beza1e1/.xsession ...
SESSION_MANAGER=local/whz15:/tmp/.ICE-unix/3161
Fenstermanager-Warnung:In der Konfigurationsdatenbank gefundenes »« ist
kein zulässiger Wert für die Tastenkombination »toggle_above«
Fenstermanager-Warnung:In der Konfigurationsdatenbank gefundenes »0xe3«
ist kein zulässiger Wert für die Tastenkombination
»run_command_terminal« Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds:
returning -1
$ echo $LANG
de_DE.UTF-8 at euro
$ xmodmap -e 'keycode 116 = Multi_key'   # works
$ setxkbmap -print
xkb_keymap {
        xkb_keycodes  { include "xfree86+aliases(qwertz)"       };
        xkb_types     { include "complete"      };
        xkb_compat    { include "complete"      };
        xkb_symbols   { include
"pc(pc105)+de+inet(logicink)+ctrl(nocaps)+compose(lwin)+compose(rwin)"  };
xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc104)"     }; };
$ ps ax | grep gnome-session
 3161 ?        Ss     0:01 /usr/bin/gnome-session

Are these the right informations?

-- 
Andreas

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