KDE and the compose key

[Jaap Boender <jaapb%kerguelen.org@localhost>]

Hello all,

After a few years of running NetBSD on only servers, I'm back to using it as a 
desktop system (something about eating your own dog food...) For the most 
part this is a fairly painless process; the only irriation is that the Compose 
key doesn't seem to be working under KDE.

I've set up the keymap, xev correctly says 'Multi_key' whenever I press it, my 
locale (en_GB.UTF-8) should support Compose keys, but whenever I try to use it 
in a KDE application (kmail, konsole+vim...), nothing happens (as in: Compose-
e-' just shows e').

It's almost certainly a KDE (or KDE/NetBSD, because it doesn't happen on 
FreeBSD) problem, since it works fine under xterm+vim and Firefox, even when 
these are running under KDE. 

There is a KDE bug (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=294949) which 
describes a similar problem for Gentoo, but all the services/daemons mentioned 
there are running on my system.

Possible other clues: kded4 seems to take up around 25% of CPU time 
constantly, and KNotify crashes fairly frequently.

Does anyone have any clue as to where this problem could be coming from?

Thanks,

  Jaap
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