Compose key oddity

[Andriy Gapon]

on 28/04/2010 07:20 John W said the following:
> Running xev (thanks for telling me about that one!) gives interesting output.
> typing <rwin><dot><dot> gives these events:
> KeyPress for keycode 115  (which is rwin)
> KeyRelease for keycode 115
> KeyPress for '.'
> KeyRelease for '.'
> KeyPress for '.'
> KeyPress for '…'    <-- It sees the ellipsis!
> KeyRelease for '.'
> 
> In fact the DOT ABOVE character doesn't show up in xev's output at all.
> And yet it shows up everywhere else I try it.

Hmm, very strange.
Perhaps something with your font… glyph at incorrect position, etc.
Which one do you use?  Can you try a different one?

P.S. Googled this up:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xkeyboard-config/+bug/415667

-- 
Andriy Gapon