On 03/23/2014 04:57 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
>> Hrm. And Emacs gets around to calling XmbLookupString?
> 
> Yes.  While pressing the compose key, the breakpoint gets triggered:

It looks like that version of OpenSUSE comes with ibus 1.4.3 [1]. I'm
running 1.5.3; according to [2], the ibus changes something in 1.5 that
made compose work.

[1] http://en.opensuse.org/Archive:Package_list_12.3

[2]
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-ime-devel/2013-June/003073.html