SL Baur <steve(a)vmailer.xemacs.org&gt; writes: I do read them (Hello Holger!). Unfortunately they suffer from a low signal-to-jost-ratio. I think we are talking about the dead key problems, i.e. x-compose . These are not really due to the Xkb-extensions but they reinforce it. Because of all the trouble in German linux groups Martin and I did all the rewriting of it. At the time I sent of a lot versions of x-compose out to people to test including AIX and XFree86 users with both french and german keyboards. Unfortunately they all used 19.15 to test and there is slight difference between x-compose in 20.4 and that version that breaks it ruining all the work :-(. As far as I know these are fixed in 21.x AFAIK the XEmacs 19.16 version should give no problems. The problem is that XFree86 seems to have versions using hyphens and and versions underscores in the keysyms (i.e, dead-tilde and dead_tilde). To add to that the XEmacs code remaps underscores to hyphens for keybindings, but x-keysym-on-keyoard-p in 20.4 wants the unremapped name. This is fixed 21.0. It would be very nice if somebody with a German linux installation (preferably something that comes directly out of a SUSE box), could try this out one more time before release to make sure we get the same debacle as in 20.4. Holger, could you find someone? Jan