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GNOME and input method integrationGNOME and input method integrationPosted Jun 27, 2012 11:44 UTC (Wed) by daniels (subscriber, #16193)In reply to: GNOME and input method integration by Tester Parent article: GNOME and input method integration
> Dead keys are definitely a feature of the basic xkb based keyboard input, they don't require an IM thing.
Actually, they do, it's just that Xlib's built-in input method supports it. If you want to compose á using a dead key, the user types — and the X server sends — a 'dead_acute' keypress, followed by an 'a' keypress. It's then up to the client to compose this into á, much the same way it does for Compose+a+'. You can check this by looking at /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose for the built-in X Input Method:
Broadly speaking, anything which involves multiple keypresses turning into one, is an input method feature.
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GNOME and input method integration Posted Jun 27, 2012 12:42 UTC (Wed) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]
> It's then up to the client to compose this into à...
So, can you have situations like: one GNOME application and one KDE application running side by side and composing this example differently?
GNOME and input method integration Posted Jun 27, 2012 12:48 UTC (Wed) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link]
Yep, totally.
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