[digiKam-users] Compose key not working in digikam when running as an appimage

[Gilles Caulier]

hi,

what do you mean by compose key exactly ? can you share a screenshot ?

Gilles Caulier

Le ven. 31 janv. 2020 à 23:58, Gerrit Holl <gerrit.holl at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> My Compose key (set to the Menu key) is not working in digikam,
> whether started from Kubuntu (Plasma) or from Xubuntu (XFCE desktop).
> I am running digikam by directly executing the
> digikam-6.4.0-x86-64.appimage file. It is working in all other
> applications that I have tested. By not working, I mean that the key
> has no effect: typing Compose o a results in oa instead of å.
>
> The only thing I can think off setting digikam apart from other
> programs is that I'm starting digikam as an appimage file. Could this
> cause the Compose key to be not working?  Perhaps because it's not
> properly "integrated" in the desktop environment?  What can I do to
> debug and/or fix it and get the Compose key to work?
>
> From export | grep IM:
>
> declare -x GTK_IM_MODULE="xim"
> declare -x QT_IM_MODULE="xim"
> declare -x XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/1000"
>
> I have considered to try to install digikam from source to see if it
> works then, but this is a bit more complicated than I thought so I
> have paused this for now, and I don't know if it would solve the
> problem.
>
> (also asked at https://askubuntu.com/q/1206957/36831)
>
> Gerrit.
>
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