Bug 3139

Summary:	Can't find documentation for the .XCompose file
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	monnier
Component:	Lib/Xlib	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high	CC:	alan.coopersmith, ienup.sung, roland.mainz, simos.bugzilla
Version:	6.8.2	Keywords:	i18n
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description monnier 2005-04-27 08:50:00 UTC

While trying to add some missing compose-sequences I discovered (thanks to
strace) the existence of ~/.XCompose.  There two problems with it:
- I shouldn't need strace to find this feature.  I'm not sure where it would be
best to mention it, tho.
- Once I figured the existence of .XCompose I still wasn't able to use it
because there is no doc for it.  Ideally a "man .XCompose" should show me the
format to use.

Comment 1 Daniel Stone 2007-02-27 01:26:34 UTC

Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys.  Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.

Comment 2 Simos Xenitellis 2007-06-22 12:35:48 UTC

The ~/.XCompose file follows the same format as the main compose file,

/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose on your distribution
or
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/lib/libX11.git;a=blob_plain;f=nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre
from upstream.

Comment 3 Alan Coopersmith 2009-11-17 08:01:45 UTC

Compose(5) man page was added in libX11 1.3.2

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