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Description of problem: No keyboard options can be set in GNOME. Particular wish: Set the compose key to the (right) "Menu" Key (this is what xev shows when pressing Compose on my Sun Type 6 US keyboard). In Gnome 2 there was a dialog in the preferences tools to configure keyboard options. This is gone. Ok, no brilliant change is surprising me anymore. So if there's nothing in the GUI tools, probably it should be working with gconftool-2 . Note for now: Assigning the key symbol Multi_key using xmodmap works. Doing it with setxkbmap -option compose:menu also works. But when GNOME3 starts, it initializes the keyboard according to it's own ideas, so these ways are not persistent. It doesn't even help to configure this in the xorg.conf . Ok, so i try with gconftool-2. Searching the internet i get a 1000 hints (is this stuff documented anywhere outside discussions in forums ?!?!?!? searching for "keyboard options" or "gconftool-2" on www.gnome.org results in - nothing !) So in the end i try with the following command, that seems to make the most sense to me - though this is more or less a guess due to the lack of finding any documentation regarding "types" or names of attributes etc.: gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd/options --type list --list-type string '[compose:menu]' No error message, but nothing changes. Additionally setting the model attribute and layout to the values it already has, changes nothing. It does neither work to assign compose to a different key (rwin or whatever). Very interesting: When opening the "Settings" dialog and letting show the fancy keyboard display that flashes the pressed keys, i see the "Menu" key highlighted when pressing the compose key. After changing the key to be the Compose key using setxkbmap like shown above and opening the dialog again, it shows a "Compose" key instead of the "Menu" key and correctly flashing. So how can this be achieved with Gnome's own means ?!?!?!?!? Someone fix or document it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): GConf2-3.2.6-6.fc19.x86_64 How reproducible: Try to configure a Compose key (X11 key symbol Multi_key) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try any way to do this using gnome tools or gconftool-2 Actual results: No way leads to the desired result. Expected results: a key is usable as compose key. Additional info:
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