Hi Ray, Thanks for the suggestion. I tried out different options in kcontrol, but none enables Compose in KDE3 applications. I wonder what causes it to be ignored and why only in KDE3 applications that are launched locally. Just a curiosity, what linux distribution are you running KDE3 on? Gianluca On Wed, 11 Jul 2018, Ray Vine wrote:
Maybe try this - I use KDE3, but not in SuSE, and this works for me.
Open up Keyboard Layout in Control Center and enable xkb options. Scroll about a quarter of the way down and under 'Compose Key Position' select the key you want to use - let's say 'Menu' [between AltGr and right Ctrl]. I don't need 'key Position of Compose Key' checked.
Then é is Menu then e then ' [Menu then ' then e also works]
Works in konsole, kate, and LibreOffice.
And you might find this interesting reading https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/501364-How-to-type-special-charac...
.. snip .. It fails only with KDE3 applications like konsole or kate.
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