spurious compose key on switching to gnome terminal window

[J. Bruce Fields]

I give a gnome terminal window focus (by moving the mouse over it), then type "ssh ...". Instead of getting "ssh", I get "ßh", exactly as if I had pressed the compose key (the left-windows key, in my case) before the "ss".

The ss->ß case is the most frequent (because I use ssh a lot), but I run into other compose-key combinations too.

I haven't found a way to reproduce this with 100% reliability. It only happens intermittently. (But often enough to be annoying.)

I'm running a fully-updated karmic, but have no idea whether to blame gnome-terminal, X, or something else.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

This is very unlikely to be keymap related

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

(X/gtk+ does the multi-key thing itself)

[J. Bruce Fields (bfields-fieldses)]

I had "gnome do" turned on, using windows-key+space (the default, I think) to activate it. I changed that to ctrl+space and no longer see the problem.

So I guess there's some conflict between use of the windows key as a compose key and using it to summon gnome do?

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Hm. I didn't think that you could use the windows key both as a
compose key and as a component of a keybinding.

I'd guess what's happening is that the compose key is being triggered
when you use the keybinding, so when you later do some typing it's in
the “compose” state. But that seems pretty weird!