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iandoug
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 Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2025 4:37 pm Post subject: A question about locales |
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Hi
Still struggling to get my compose key to work, apparently
# Import default rules from the system Compose file
include "%L"
goes to look for the Compose file in my locale folder.
My locales are
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LANG=en_ZA.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_ZA.utf8"
LC_ALL=
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But I have no en_ZA folder under locales
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ll /usr/share/X11/locale/
total 392
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 24 2023 C
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 7 2023 am_ET.UTF-8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 24 2023 armscii-8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31977 Sep 2 2024 compose.dir
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 24 2023 cs_CZ.UTF-8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 24 2023 el_GR.UTF-8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 2 2024 en_US.UTF-8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 24 2023 fi_FI.UTF-8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 24 2023 georgian-academy
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 24 2023 georgian-ps
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 24 2023 ibm-cp1133
(etc)
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Should there be an en_ZA.utf8 folder there?
Thanks, Ian
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iandoug
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Thanks, I reviewed that page, everything was already set up. I redid the steps anyway, no change.
Compose function was working fine for years on this box, then some update broke it and I can't get it fixed so exploring all options ... even plugged my old MS Natural keyboard in to see if it was hardware-related.
I don't know which update broke it ... I went a few months without writing research papers so did not notice it being broken. I mostly use it for custom characters.
It may have been the "profile" switch, or some KDE thing ...
I have Compose key set on LeftWin. Do I need to set any flags ant the "Alt + Ctrl" section of KDE's key bindings?
FWIW I ran qxkb (https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1172807-highlight-.html) which managed to fix it temporarily, but broke the key refresh rate, when I reset that in KDE settings, then compose stopped working again.
I just ran it again, it prints a bunch of stuff to screen including below, then stops/hangs.
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Set layout : "us"
QXKB:XKB args "-model pc104 -layout us -variant -option compose:lwin"
QXKB:setxkbmap argumetns : ("-model", "pc104", "-layout", "us", "-variant", "", "", "-option", "compose:lwin")
QXKB:setxkbmap result : 0
QXKB:XKB set
QXKB:Set delay
QXKB:xset argument : ("r", "rate", "1000", "1")
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(refresh rate broken again ...)
Current keyboard is KeyChron running my own key layout, but QMK tells OS that it is generic US.
After running that I see Compose works again so now need to persuade qxkb to set refresh rate properly ... 1 refresh per second not gonna do it 
So this is some software config issue, but how to fix? .....
Thanks, Ian
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