Weechat: Ignores compose key

[victor-catalyst]

How to reproduce:

1. Map Caps Lock as the compose key using for example setxkbmap -layout us -variant dvorak-alt-intl -option compose:caps.
2. Start WeeChat 1.9.1 in XTerm 322.
3. Press Caps Lock followed by aa.

Expected behaviour: It should print "å".

Actual behaviour: It prints "aa".

[Mikaela]

I cannot reproduce this with compose:menu.

[victor-catalyst]

@Mikaela Did you try with Caps Lock?

[Mikaela]

@victor-catalyst When I wrote the comment I didn't, I communicated unclearly and tried to point out that the issue title is invalid.

However now that I asked, I tried and Caps Lock as compose key works without issues*, so I cannot reproduce this.

From required info of Contributing.adoc:

• WeeChat version:
  
  
  
  • WeeChat 1.9.1 [compiled on Sep 23 2017 19:44:10]
  
  
  • WeeChat 2.0-dev (git: v1.9-416-g093af02) [compiled on Oct 30 2017 14:16:21]
  
  
• lsb_release -sa
  
  
  
  • 1.4 Arch "Arch Linux" rolling n/a
  
  
  • No LSB modules are available. | Debian | Debian GNU/Linux 8.9 (jessie) | 8.9 | jessie
  
  

I am running the toppernmost details are from my localhost (rxvt-unicode (urxvt) v9.22 - released: 2016-01-23) in tmux 2.6 and the lower is over ssh in tmux 1.9.

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* to be honest I did encounter irrelevant issues such as copy-pasting setxkbmap -layout us -variant dvorak-alt-intl -option compose:caps to my terminal without sanity checking it first as I am using Finnish/Swedish QWERTY keyboard and it took me a moment to restore back from US Dvorak and after adjusting my own command I accidentally first wrote capslock instead of caps which naturally didn't work and when I reached the correct command (setxkbmap -option compose:caps -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp -option nbsp:none) I had locked my laptop to only use Caps Lock which again took a little of searxing to find these instructions for disabling Caps Lock from terminal where finally sudo pacman -S xdotool && xdotool key Caps_Lock finally let me out of CAPS LOCKED state. I think Caps Lock as Compose is a nice idea and I might be copying you later, have you encountered any drawbacks that way?

[victor-catalyst]

I don't know what else to do then, because it works in at least Firefox, Thunderbird, XTerm+Bash. Interestingly, I tested with two applications where I have never needed the compose key, JetBrains IDEA and Git GUI, and it fails in both of them as well. So this is actually a wider issue. My bad.

Looking at various bugs and suggestions (1, 2) it appears that the trick is to run ibus-daemon --xim.