Thanks for your report!
Hmm... That wiki page you referred to was last edited 11 years ago and
is obsolete to a large extent.
Today, on an Ubuntu system, it's normally GTK (not IBus, so I'm closing
this bug report) which deals with rules in the ~/.XCompose file. I can
confirm that GTK does not seem to be able to handle multi character
strings. But if I switch to XIM it works for me.
* Open Language Support and change the "Keyboard input method
system" to "XIM"
* Reboot
Please note, though, that replacing "IBus" with "XIM" may result in
other subtle issues.
** Changed in: ibus (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1845332
Title:
Compose key does not create strings
Status in ibus package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
According to manual https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ComposeKey it is possible to
define sequences to type characters and strings with Compose key.
In Ubuntu 18.04 sequences work for characters but not for strings, line like
this:
<Multi_key> <b> <t> <w> : "by the way" # Compose b t w
seems to be ignored.
$ apt-cache policy ibus
ibus:
Installed: 1.5.17-3ubuntu5.2
Candidate: 1.5.17-3ubuntu5.2
Version table:
*** 1.5.17-3ubuntu5.2 500
500 http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64
Packages
500 http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu bionic-security/main amd64
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.5.17-3ubuntu4 500
500 http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
500 http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
This problem first reported at Dec 11 '18 and also exists in Kubuntu
18.04 (see https://askubuntu.com/questions/1099947/how-to-use-
xcompose-to-produce-snippets).
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