On Tue, 14 May 2002 16:05:17 +0200
Mike Fabian
The compose key never works if you are using XIM. Either you use compose or XIM, as far as I know you can't currently use both at the same time.
That's clear now.
IIIMF will make this possible, with IIIMF you will be able to switch between different input methods, including compose. But currently I believe it is not possible to use compose when your are using XIM.
That means input of accented characters is quite inconvenient: "Einfuegen/Sonderzeichen" or copy and paste from a separate file. Does anyone know a way to make the compose key work or a more convenient way of writing accented characters?
Which accented characters? German? To be able to input both German and Japanese easily, you can use kinput2 and a German keyboard layout.
Yes I know, but I need also French and vowels with macron.
If you want to use other accented characters as well, you can switch keyboards layouts. If you are using KDE, you can select all the keyboard layouts you need in kcontrol and switch between them by clicking on an icon in the taskbar. If you don't use KDE you can switch keyboards with:
setxkbmap de setxkbmap fr ...
I'm using icewm. Changing the keyboard layout is a good idea. Thanks. Gerhard Schuck geschu@ma5.seikyou.ne.jp