Feature: Compose support

[snakeroot]

Now that libxkbcommon will have Compose support could that be implemented in kmscon as well, preferably with the compose key being designated in the same manner as in X (xkb_options=compose:lwin)?

[aleufroy]

Hi, any news on it? It would be so great to have compose key working!

[bluetech]

There is this patch I wrote to test compose support: https://github.com/bluetech/kmscon/tree/compose

I updated it now to work with the compose API in the released version of xkbcommon. It works if you don't mind compiling.

Note that for some reason I made the compose support default off, so you need to pass --compose (in addition to something like --xkb-options=compose:ralt) for it to work.

[aleufroy]

@bluetech great, that works perfectly! thx.

@dvdhrm any plan to include the corresponding patch into main stream? It allows me to use kmscon as my primary interface and only occasionally start xorg.