The current Finnish keyboard layout forces the right super/windows-logo key to be used as a compose key, with the line include "compose(rwin)" While X keyboard options can be used to set the compose key (see man xkeyboard-config), and this can be later cleared with setxkbmap ("setxkbmap -option"), even if the options were set from xorg.conf, the way the Finnish layout sets the compose key can't be easily overriden unless you modify the keyboard layout directly, xmodmap -e 'keycode 134 = Super_R' This can be unexpected, as only a few keyboard layouts set a compose key in the keyboard layout itself, and only two use the right super key for this purpose. This does not seem to be some standard for Finnish keyboards, as http://kotoistus.tksoft.com/linux/index-en.html mentions > The Kotoistus keyboard doesn't specify a compose key. I have defined the right windows key as the compose key, for convenience. Can this somehow be done through XkbOptions instead of modifying the base keyboard layout directly? Reproducible: Always
IMHO your request is legitimate. But this is a question that should be asked upstream, as I'd rather avoid deviating whenever possible. Head over to: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xkeyboard-config with the information you've given here. Do post back the upstream bug # so we can track it. Cheers
Reported upstream, freedesktop bug 84934.
This is fixed in upstream by: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/commit/?id=50c87d41ed9a86d300377ce330909c11466af139 and its part of x11-misc/xkeyboard-config-2.14, which is oldest ebuild in tree. So this should be closed.
