Dead keys maps missing in certain programs only

Asked Nov 02 '14 at 13:55

Active Dec 01 '14 at 07:35

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I cannot use ^ with certain programs. I'm working in KDE on OpenSUSE 13.1 64b.

^ works as a dead key in Konsole, Firefox, Chrome, Gvim.

^ has no effect (pressing ^ then a just inserts a) in Xterm, Emacs, Opera, Libreoffice.

My /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-keytable.conf

Section "InputClass"
   Identifier "LocalKeyboard"
   MatchIsKeyboard "on"
   Option   "XkbLayout" "ch"
   Option   "XkbVariant"   "fr"
EndSection

UPDATE

In answer to Gilles' comment, I post xdv output for ^

KeyPress event, serial 40, synthetic NO, window 0x4800001,
    root 0x25e, subw 0x0, time 19371288, (-553,369), root:(297,392),
    state 0x10, keycode 21 (keysym 0xfe52, dead_circumflex), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (5e) "^"
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: True

UPDATE 2

Here's the output of env | grep IM

QT_IM_MODULE=ibus
CACHESTALLTIME=12
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
QT_IM_SWITCHER=imsw-multi

EDIT 3

I have solved the problem for emacs gui adding the line in .emacs:

(load-library "iso-transl")

edited Dec 01 '14 at 07:35

asked Nov 02 '14 at 13:55

user3639782

@gilles In xterm I get `ae`. In konsole I get `âe`. When I press `^` twice, I get `ae` and `^ae` respectively. – user3639782 Nov 02 '14 at 15:07
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`showkey` is too low-level to get useful information here. Run the program `xev` from a terminal and press `^`. Copy-paste the paragraph that begins with `KeyPress event` for pressing `^`. Do other dead keys work? – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Nov 02 '14 at 15:22
@Gilles I have updted my post with `xdev` output – user3639782 Nov 02 '14 at 15:45
Hmmm. The key is correct. Do you have an input method set up? I have no idea where it might be configured. What does `env | grep IM` show (if anything)? – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Nov 03 '14 at 19:23
@Gilles I updated my post with the requested ouput – user3639782 Nov 03 '14 at 20:07

Dead keys maps missing in certain programs only

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