Multi-key and deadkey setups

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Mon Jul 17 08:52:27 PDT 2006


Owen Taylor, le Mon 17 Jul 2006 10:20:32 -0400, a écrit :
> On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 13:44 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> > > Are you using GTK+-based applications?
> > 
> > This caught me out before. See the bottom of:
> > http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/xkeyboard/
> > 
> > Why does GTK+ use it's own incomplete and inaccurate mappings?
> 
> GTK+ needs cross-platform input code because it runs on
> on platforms (like directfb) that don't have their own compose
> handling.

But GTK+ SHOULD use X11's compose handling when it is available: that
would avoid seeing GTK+ being always late.

Samuel



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