Using A “compose Key” On CentOS6

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Hi all!

I ran into a description of how to set up a compose key for F21 and decided to see if it would work on C6.

Well, the right configuration dialog exists, and I can choose a key to use, but after completion, the compose key doesn’t seem to work.

It works like a charm on CentOS-7, though. If I select Right Win as the compose key, typing ae results in “�” as I expect.

but doing the same thing on CentOS-6 gives me an unadorned “ae”, not the ligature, but the individual characters. i.e., it doesn’t do anything helpful.

Since the keyboard setup dialog includes the options to define a compose key I’m going to assume it’s supposed to work, and th at I’m just overlooking something.

Anybody got any good suggestions?

thanks!


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  • As an added bit of evidence: it works FINE on my CentOS-5 box (which is up to date) at my office.

    Anybody got any clues how I can troubleshoot it on my CentOS-6 system at home?

    thanks!


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