I'm just trying to tie up loose ends on local problems with my 7.4 systems. This problem is new in 7.4 (the others aren't, so I won't mention them here), and now worked around on x86_64 but not on i686.
People will no doubt remember that I like to make full use of accented letters. For that, I've got some local things using xmodmap to add more dead keys (e.g. dead belowcomma for Romanian letters, dead stroke for a few other letters), and some compose sequences in ~/.XCompose. To get these to work in gtk+-2 applications has always required me to export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim. My previous builds in April used gtk+-2.24.14 and my added dead keys and compose sequences worked out of the box. In the 7.4 builds I'm using gtk+-2.24.20 and they didn't. Eventually I found an Arch report : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=161355 In that case, /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules was empty. Mine looked fine. For me, running gtk-query-immodules --update-cache didn't seem to do anything (file timestamp was unchanged), but using gtk-query-immodules-2.0 > /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules did refresh it. On one x86_64 machine, the contents were in a different order, on the other only a "created by" comment seemed to change. But in both cases the gtk2 apps (particularly, lo writer) now work as expected. I don't have any explanation for how/why that fixed it. What's worse is that on my i686 build it doesn't fix it. Weirder and weirder, but those of us using our own key mappings are a tiny minority so most people won't be affected. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
