(NOTE: platform reported is AMD64, but the problem is the same with x86 as well) When you configure X with the given rules for another layout than the classical qwerty layout, all is OK... Except with OpenOffice! With the given example (my layout is French though, not Belgian), dead keys just won't work ('^' + 'e' won't give an 'ê'). I've tried an Ubuntu recently, and dead keys worked fine with OpenOffice. The only difference was to add this option to the keyboard configuration section: Option "XkbVariant" "oss" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure X as the documentation says (supposing you DON'T have a qwerty keyboard) 2. Start X, open OpenOffice 3. Try and type a composed character, ie ^ + e Actual Results: OpenOffice displays '^e', literally... Expected Results: ... Should be 'ê' You should look at the way Ubuntu probes for X configuration, it gives awesome results, every time.
Works perfectly fine here, no such workarounds should be needed. Let openoffice maintainers decide what to do with it...
Cannot reproduce at all with Czech layout, dead keys are working perfectly fine.
I should precise that I'm using the -bin version. Like the vast majority of users, I guess. Also, I don't think it's really up to oo maintainers to do this. This option works fine with all layouts, so why don't you document it in the fist place?
(In reply to comment #3) > Also, I don't think it's really up to oo maintainers to do this. This option > works fine with all layouts, so why don't you document it in the fist place? Well, because the faulty behaviour in Oo.org is clearly a bug (and not one in documentation).
As this is a problem with openoffice-bin please file a bug upstream: http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html
