How to make Compose work

[iandoug]

Hi

A recent update (I think the big one a while back) to KDE broke my Compose functionality.

How do I get it back?

I have set the compose key to Left Win like it always was, but that refuses to work.

https://yo.co.za.tmp/compose-key.png

Is there some driver possibly not loaded?

I need Compose for my own custom characters. Using a picker is tedious.

I don't know if "Left Win == Meta" (apparently) has any thing to do with the problem. I unticked that option, it did not help.

Thanks, Ian

[iandoug]

Ok I looked at

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Compose_key

and installed qxkb, which was able to set compose to left win.

Don't know if anything else broke, will probably discover in due course.

FWIW, outputs running qxkb as root:

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fractal /home/ian # qxkb
QStandardPaths: runtime directory '/run/user/1000' is not owned by UID 0, but a directory permissions 0700 owned by UID 1000 GID 1000
Could not find color scheme "BreezeCerise" falling back to BreezeLight
Locale: "en_ZA"
Language: "qxkb_en"
Language path (trying): "/usr/share/qxkb/i18n"
Language path (fallback): "/usr/bin/language/"
 QXKB:Config file not find in : "/root"
 QXKB:Create new
 X11tools::loadRule
Use next status :  "DONT_USE_XKB"
Theme  "/usr/share/qxkb/theme/default"
Icons  "/usr/share/qxkb/theme/default/language/"
 X11tools::loadRule
"/usr/share/qxkb/theme/default/language/"
"us"
QXKBconf:addItem
Set XKB result 0
Set xSet result 0
Create menu ("English (US)")
Available groups ("English (US)")
kf.notifications: env says KDE is running but SNI unavailable -- check KDE_FULL_SESSION and XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
Set XKB result 0
Set xSet result 0
Set XKB result 0
Set xSet result 0
Pid file locate : "/root/.config/qxkb.pid"
Create pid

^C

and as user:

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qxkb
Locale: "en_ZA"
Language: "qxkb_en"
Language path (trying): "/usr/share/qxkb/i18n"
Language path (fallback): "/usr/bin/language/"
 QXKB:Config file not find in : "/home/ian"
 QXKB:Create new
 X11tools::loadRule 
Use next status :  "DONT_USE_XKB"
Theme  "/usr/share/qxkb/theme/default"
Icons  "/usr/share/qxkb/theme/default/language/"
 X11tools::loadRule 
"/usr/share/qxkb/theme/default/language/"
Set XKB result 0
Set xSet result 0
Create menu ("English (US)")
Available groups ("English (US)")
Set XKB result 0
Set xSet result 0
Pid file locate : "/home/ian/.config/qxkb.pid"
Create pid
^C

Cheers, Ian

[iandoug]

Note:

qxkb totally messed up the "key repeat" settings, luckily my old box provided the correct rates which I set via KDE's settings app.

[iandoug]

This issue remains... it worked for a while and then stopped.

Any ideas as to where to look to resolve will be gratefully received

That other settings program now refuses to start ... think it did not like what KDE settings did.

Thanks, Ian