[olpc-help] Compose file not working

[Bart Geesink]

Hi guys,

I hope this is the right place to ask this question. I tried it on the forums, 
but I don't get an answer there, so I try it on this mailinglist. 

I would like to make use of the compose options in Xorg. The compose key 
combinations are in this file: /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose

I have changed the language settings so that $LANG is en_US.UTF-8.
I also tried to copy the compose file to ~.XCompose but that also didn´t work 
(this ~.XCompose should override the Compose file 
in /usr/share/X11/locale/$LANG as suggested here: 
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/X1 ... OTES4.html).

I also tried to put:
export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
in ~.bashrc as suggested in several places, but that also didn't seem to work. 
Does anyone have a clue how I can enable Compose?

Thanks
Bart