Re: <Multi_key> is undefined

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> writes:

> On 03/23/2014 02:17 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>> 
>>> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> After upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04 (and using Cinnamon), I can no longer
>>>> use <Multi_key>.  Emacs flashes at me and displays "<Multi_key> is
>>>> undefined".
>>>
>>> That means compose handling is broken on your system.
>> 
>> It's likely not just "my system" but in a month of time the most widely
>> deployed GNU/Linux system.
>
> FWIW, it's broken on 13.10 for me too.

Interesting.  Possibly my use of Cinnamon put me behind the time.

> Nulling out XMODIFIERS fixes it for me; that environment variable
> normally contains something about ibus; making that change ourselves
> probably breaks other functionality though.

dak@lola:/usr/local/tmp/emacs-build$ echo $XMODIFIERS 
@im=ibus

Huh.

Starting Emacs from the command line, I get
emacs

** (emacs:14442): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-hJwGKKvPZH: Connection refused

There is nothing remotely like that file.  However, that seems to be a
red herring regarding _this_ problem since with

XMODIFIERS="" emacs

I get the same error message (including the same file name), but indeed
the compose character starts working.

-- 
David Kastrup