On 03/23/2014 04:37 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
>>> Found it. Emacs' XCreateIC is failing because we pass an
>>> XNStatusAttributes; omitting this parameter makes the compose
>>> system work fine. Let me see whether omitting this parameter has
>>> any side effects; if it doesn't, I'll check in a patch to retry
>>> XCreateIC without XNStatusAttributes if the first call fails.
>>
>> I pushed a fix to trunk. Can you please try it now?  Compose works
>> for me without having to muck with XMODIFIERS.
> 
> For me it fails.  My openSuSE 12.3 GNU/Linux box uses gtk+ 2.24.18 and
> XOrg 1.13.2, in case this matters.

Break on XCreateIC. Does it return NULL?