Compose Key only works with GNOME apps

[Brighid]

Hi everyone,

I'm sure most of you are familiar with the "compose key", that lets you type accented characters and the like.  I use it very often, and only just noticed that it doesn't work at all in any of my KDE applications, as far as I can tell.

Up until now I'd been using Firefox primarily, which is a GNOME program, and since switching to Konqueror (it's a lot faster and better integrated with KDE), I've realized that I can no longer type any accented characters.

I find this very frustrating, because I frequently use them, and having to go into Gaim or some other GNOME application just to copy and paste into the KDE program is very cumbersome.

I doubt it makes any difference, but I use my right Windows key as my compose key.  Other than changing it so that's the only compose key, I didn't do anything special; I just set it up in System Settings.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might go about fixing this?  It's important that I get this to work.

Thanks for reading!

[askrieger]

Re: Compose Key only works with GNOME apps

I thought that keyboard stuff was set at the X level not at the desktop environment level, but I could easily be wrong. You could investigate xmodmap and xkeycaps (which is a kind of gui frontend for xmodmap).