To sum up: It helped by recompile and reinstall xterm. But only for a) newly started xterm's b) the xterm where the recompile/reinstall was run I don't remember if I was running stable or current at the time.
/NilsOla On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 07:46:35AM +0100, NilsOla Nilsson wrote: > We had the same problem in this thread: > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=156352002210168&w=2 > > It is working fine for me now, so I can't reproduce it. > > /NilsOla > > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 06:03:53AM +0000, Xianwen Chen (陈贤文) wrote: > > Dear Ingo, > > > > Danke! > > > > On 2/19/20, Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> wrote: > > > Just to make sure it worked, could you please show the output of: > > > > > > $ setxkbmap -query > > > > The output is: > > > > rules: base > > model: pc105 > > layout: us > > variant: dvp > > options: compose:ralt > > > > > What exactly do you mean by "not able to use"? > > > If, while xterm is in focus, you press and relese the compose key, > > > then press and release the first key, then press and release the > > > second key, then press and release some latin letter key, what > > > exactly happens after each step? > > > > To type for example ø, I press and release the compose key, then press > > and release the / key, and then press and release the o key. I get > > /o > > on xterm, but ø on firefox. > > > > > Guessing blindly, the problem might be that while firefox finds a font > > > to display the character, xterm does not. Or that you have changed > > > your xterm configuration in some way that disables UTF-8 (it is on > > > by default). Can you please retry in xterm with a different character > > > that can be displayed in xterm out of the box, say U+00E5 LATIN > > > SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE? What happens if you type and release > > > ralt, then a, then a, then x? > > > > xterm can display å too, when I copies it using shift+insert from > > firefox or other places. > > > > xterm can display ø when I copies it using shift+insert from firefox > > or other places. > > > > > If none of the above lets you solve your problem yet, what does the > > > following command say: > > > > > > $ xterm -report-xres > > > > > > In an xterm started that way, does the compose key work? > > > Both with the character you want and with U+00E5 A RING? > > > > Ugh. xterm says: > > > > xterm: bad command line option "-report-xres" > > > > I forgot to report maybe an important piece of information. I use scim > > to type in Chinese. I use the default xdm. Here is my .xsession: > > > > export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 > > > > export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM > > export GTK_IM_MODULE="scim" > > export QT_IM_MODULE="scim" > > scim -d > > > > setxkbmap -layout us -variant dvp -option compose:ralt > > > > exec dbus-launch /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm > > > > I was going to ask my questions one by one so that I will not flood > > the email list with all my questions. But the scim question is the > > following. > > > > Quite the opposite of my compose key problem, I am not able to > > activate scim (by ctrl + space) on normal GUI programs (firefox, > > libreoffice, xpdf, keepassxc, emacs-gtk etc). > > > > But but but, I am able to activate scim on xterm and type Chinese there. > > > > So I have actually been typing æ, ø, å in firefox and copy back to > > xterm and typing Chinese using scim on xterm and copy back to firefox > > / libreoffice for like more than half a year.... I had this problem on > > OpenBSD 6.5 too (I was using OpenBSD like 10 years ago for some time > > and also in between in the past ten years. I went back, last year, to > > OpenBSD... Was using NetBSD even longer time ago and started using > > unix-like system around 2001 or 2002)..... But I did not have this > > type of scim / compose key problems on Debian, NixOS, Arch Linux, or > > Void Linux, which are the Linux distributions that I used in the > > recent years. > > > > Good morning, by the way! > > > > Yours sincerely, > > Xianwen > > -- > Nils Ola Nilsson, 🐞 email nils...@abc.se, tel +46-70-374 69 89 -- Nils Ola Nilsson, 🐞 email nils...@abc.se, tel +46-70-374 69 89
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