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From:	Michael Schaap <cygwin DOT lists AT mscha DOT org>
Subject:	WinCompose vs. Cygwin/X
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Date:	Tue, 10 Jan 2017 14:28:46 +0100
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I recently discovered WinCompose 
<https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose>, a Windows port of XCompose, 
and fell in love with it.

Unfortunately, it doesn't play nice with Cygwin/X, it seems. WinCompose 
eats the key sequences, and neither the original keys nor the intended 
character(s) ever reach X.
Of course, Cygwin/X has XCompose.  But because of the above, you can't 
use the same compose key in WinCompose and XCompose.  So I keep using 
the wrong compose key.  (gvim is the worst, since I use both the Windows 
and X versions.)

Does any of you have experience with this and know a better way to deal 
with this?
Potential solutions might be to tell Cygwin/X to use Windows keyboard 
handling instead of its own keyboard drivers (but I don't think that's 
possible), or to tell WinCompose to disable itself in windows owned by 
the X server (and that doesn't seem possible either).
(I know mintty has its own compose functionality now, but that doesn't 
help.  I spend a lot of my time in terminal windows, but not all. :)

Thanks in advance,

– Michael

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