Valeriy E. Ushakov <uwe@stderr.spb.ru> wrote:

> James K. Lowden <jklowden@schemamania.org> wrote:
>
> > Extra credit for explaining how to get the Compose key working in X
> > in less than 30 minutes.
> 
> I can't test it at the moment, but make sure your compose key is
> Multi_key.  E.g. add to the keyboard InputDevice section something
> like:
> 
>         Option "XkbModel" "pc105compose"
> 
> to make right windows key Multi_key.  Your locale should be set
> correctly too (i.e. only the compose sequences that result in the
> chars from the locale charset will work).  See xc/nls/Compose for
> details.

I've just did some testing and the easiest way is to add one of:

    Option "XkbOptions" "compose:ralt"
    #Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"
    #Option "XkbOptions" "compose:menu"

to make the corresponding key Multi_key.

SY, Uwe
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