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xkeyboard-config package

  1. Bug #1573755
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 1573755

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Jan Claeys (janc) wrote : Re: compose and dead keys stopped working in gnome terminal

You can possibly work around this by selecting another input method (IM) with 'im-config' or by removing ~/.xinputrc (which selects the default for your locale) and then reboot (or restart X11—log out & back in is not always enough).

The default IM for most languages is 'ibus' which you can configure with 'ibus-setup' if necessary (but only after the X restart!).

For some reason the ibus developers think it's funny to show a "smiley face" during entering of a Compose sequence, but otherwise it seems to work okay now.