Re: <Multi_key> is undefined

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
>> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 10:29:12 +0100
>> Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> 
>> > 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.
>
> I suggest to add this (and other) solutions to etc/PROBLEMS.

From my point of view, it would currently make more sense cherry-picking
the fixes of Daniel to the release branch unless we get reports that
they don't do the trick in cases where nulling XMODIFIERS does.

-- 
David Kastrup