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Hey, I just switched from gentoo to arch, and I'm liking it (all except for the beginner's flubs). For some reason, though, I can't get my right alt key to work as the Compose, or Multi key. I have it set in my xorg.conf and in kde's control panel (I use kde), but while in KDE it doesn't seem to do anything. Xev reports that it's Multi_key, as does xbindkeys -k. Can someone help me figure this out?
Thanks,
Nick
Last edited by Shirakawasuna (2007-03-10 10:48:03)
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Well, it seems to be KDE, as compose works fine in twm. I've turned off keyboard layouts, so I have no idea what's causing it to prevent my right alt key from working
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sorry to keep replying to my own message, but it seems that it has nothing to do with the main kde settings in /home/nick/.kde3.5 (I moved it somewhere else, logged out/in, the issue was still present)
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Hello
Do you have messages related to keyboard in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file ?
Do you have the xorg-xkb-utils package installed ? It provides the xkbcomp binary used by xorg to set the AltGr key.
Last edited by berbae (2007-03-09 14:18:50)
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Fixed! Turns out my old ~/.xprofile contained:
export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
export XMODIFIER=@im=SCIM
export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim
export QT_IM_MODULE=scim
which prevented it from working correctly
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Interesting, I've got exactly the same problem as you did (and I'm an old gentooer, too). However, I don't have the file ~/.xprofile so there must be some other way to solve this problem. Any ideas?
Thanks, jsh
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Well, it was originally an issue having to do with scim - do you have scim installed?
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No I don't. However, it started working some days ago, I have no idea why, I didn't even try to make it work then. Well, problem solved.
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