Compose key

Can somebody shine a light on the rationale behind the frase

*In openSUSE Leap 15.0, there is no longer a predefined compose key combination because Shift–Right Ctrl does not work as expected anymore.

*https://doc.opensuse.org/release-notes/x86_64/openSUSE/Leap/15.0/index.html#general

My question specifically is, why does it not work as expected anymore and why can’t they fix it?

Regards,

Teuniz

I don’t know the answer. I’m guessing that there’s too much variation, depending on hardware.

Just define your own. I have it set to right-ALT key here. With KDE, I set that using

Configure Desktop –> Shortcuts

Same here, enabled through the KDE Systemsettings - Input Devices - Keyboard.

But in KDE settings, you can not assign the key sequence Shift then Ctrl as the compose key, am I right?

For me that’s a pitty because after all those years my brain is programmed to use that combination automatically.

And the option “3rd level of Right Ctrl” doesn’t work (and yes, I clicked on the apply button).
On another pc it worked one time only, then it stopped working :open_mouth:

And left Win key can not be used because the KDE developers assigned it hardcoded to application launcher :beat-up:

AFAIK these are still X settings, so you might be able to achieve your combo by adding some option to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf