Bug#538669: libgtk2.0-0: Cannot compose accents with GTK applications since upgrade to squeeze

[Michael Schutte]

reassign 538669 libgtk2.0-0
severity 538669 normal
thanks

Hey,

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 06:55:16PM +1000, y wrote:
> Since I've upgraded I can't create anymore accents by using a compose key (right windows key for me). 
> This problem seems to only appear in all GTK application (Iceweasel, icedove, dia,...). 
> Otherwise it works in a xterm, OOo and konqueror.
> 
> If I want to create a "é" normally I do : right-windows-key then ' then "e" but I get nothing with icedove for instance.
> Or if I do right-windows-key then ' then "e" AND then "e" again. I get a reverse "e" like : "ə" :-)
> 
> I'm don't where this bug come from. It worked correctly before the upgrade to squeeze. 
> Before I was in testing as well but everything should have been close from a lenny actually. I didn't upgrade for a while.
> 
> Sorry I don't know what kind of information I can give you because I don't even know what's doing that :(

No problem, here’s a first idea:  Please start gedit, open the context
menu in the text editing area and choose the X input method from the
penultimate submenu.  Then try to compose some characters and add your
findings to this bugreport.

Thanks in advance,
-- 
Michael Schutte <michi at uiae.at>
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