Problem with Compose file and compose table

[Kudlaty01]

Version

1.3.1
compiled manually

Configuration

https://gist.github.com/Kudlaty01/fe45655dc8bf20595713989e17a036bb

Launch Command

rofi

Steps to reproduce

• (Optional) set locale from pl_PL.utf8 by export LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8 (or en_US.UTF-8)
• run rofi

What behaviour you see

xkbcommon: ERROR: couldn't find a Compose file for locale "pl_PL.UTF-8"
Failed to get keyboard compose table. Trying to limp on.
Rofi daemon mode is now removed.
Please use your window manager binding functionality or xbindkeys to replace it.

What behaviour you expect to see

• running rofi

[Kudlaty01]

I have even found out that locale pl_PL.utf8 is defined as an alias in /usr/share/X11/locale/locale.alias, but I don't know if it may be useful in that case.
Just to share the info.

[DaveDavenport]

Have you looked at: https://github.com/DaveDavenport/rofi/wiki/xkbcommon-FAQ#compose
This is also an error by xkbcommon, not really rofi.

[DaveDavenport]

btw. running rofi without arguments will never work. please read manpage.

[DaveDavenport]

duplicate #400

[sardemff7]

Actually, considering the comment about locale.alias, I checked again what should happen.
Using pl_PL.utf8 should work (tested it locally with en_US.utf8), so I will update the FAQ. But I need some more information to update it properly.

@Kudlaty01 can you give me the output of these commands:

LANG=pl_PL.utf8 strace rofi 2>&1|grep /usr/share/X11/locale
grep pl_PL /usr/share/X11/locale/locale.alias
grep pl_PL /usr/share/X11/locale/compose.dir
ls -ld /usr/share/X11/locale/iso8859-2/Compose

And also, which distribution are you using? (I will need some info about a few packages.)

[Kudlaty01]

@DaveDavenport I have read that FAQ and it didn't help me much as it was only alias, but it made me try with different languages even,
I have realized that running with no arguments won't work when I have first tried to run it with -show argument. However, won't run on i3 with multiple, comma separated -modi, for me at least.

[Kudlaty01]

@sardemff7 I have been searching through these files yesterday, the output of these commands is as follows (tabs should have been looking better):

pl pl_PL.ISO8859-2
pl.UTF-8 pl_PL.UTF-8
pl_PL pl_PL.ISO8859-2
pl_PL.iso88592 pl_PL.ISO8859-2
pl_PL.ISO-8859-2 pl_PL.ISO8859-2
pl_PL.utf8 pl_PL.UTF-8
polish pl_PL.ISO8859-2
pl: pl_PL.ISO8859-2
pl.UTF-8: pl_PL.UTF-8
pl_PL: pl_PL.ISO8859-2
pl_PL.iso88592: pl_PL.ISO8859-2
pl_PL.ISO-8859-2: pl_PL.ISO8859-2
pl_PL.utf8: pl_PL.UTF-8
polish: pl_PL.ISO8859-2
kudlaty01@mcdebian:~$ grep pl_PL /usr/share/X11/locale/compose.dir
iso8859-2/Compose pl_PL.ISO8859-2
en_US.UTF-8/Compose pl_PL.UTF-8
iso8859-2/Compose: pl_PL.ISO8859-2
en_US.UTF-8/Compose: pl_PL.UTF-8

I am running Debian Jessie currently with i3wm, but xkbcommon has been compiled to meet the requirements, had also to update bison for the sake of that compilation.
Funny thing, I've compiled xkbcommon 0.5.0, but dpkg -l tells me there's 0.4.3-2, but probably that's it's exclusive knowledge.
What packages shall I provide info about?

[DaveDavenport]

I have realized that running with no arguments won't work when I have first tried to run it with -show argument

Just double checking.

I have realized that running with no arguments won't work when I have first tried to run it with -show argument. However, won't run on i3 with multiple, comma separated -modi, for me at least.

This is an i3 escaping issue. I'll see if I can allow a second separator that does not cause so much problems with i3. see 6.1. Executing applications (exec) in the i3 manual.

[Kudlaty01]

@DaveDavenport
This is an i3 escaping issue. I'll see if I can allow a second separator that does not cause so much problems with i3. see 6.1. Executing applications (exec) in the i3 manual.
If I'd read that point (I'm beginning my adventure with i3wm currently) I'd quote the whole command. That did the trick just a moment ago :)
What about daemonization of rofi? is it possible or do I have to execute a new instance every time?

[DaveDavenport]

For the daemonizing please see other bug reports (is also off-topic to this bug).
In short: Hotkey binding is done by i3wm, this is not rofi its task. Rofi starts up very quickly (30 ms on my arch laptop) no point keeping it running constantly duplicating functionality from the window manager.

[sardemff7]

@Kudlaty01
Where is the output of LANG=pl_PL.utf8 strace -e open rofi 2>&1|grep /usr/share/X11/locale ?

Also, can you check that the package libx11-data is installed, and the file /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose exists.

[Kudlaty01]

Sorry for the delay, a lot of work recently.
@DaveDavenport Not that I've been complaining, I was only worried if I am running it the proper way.
@sardemff7

Where is the output of LANG=pl_PL.utf8 strace -e open rofi 2>&1|grep /usr/share/X11/locale

It didn't produce any output

libx11-data is installed in version 2:1.6.2-3
The /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose does exist

[sardemff7]

Hum, and these two:
LANG=pl_PL.utf8 rofi
LANG=en_US.utf8 strace -e open rofi 2>&1|grep /usr/share/X11/locale