Hello,

I am in the course of trying out Slackware, and my system is slackware 14.

I am trying to make a compose key using the following reference:

http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=5995

These are the steps that I took according to the reference:

1) Created the file ~/.xinitrc
2) Placed this code in the file: setxkbmap -option compose:ralt
3) Logged out and tried to make the changes effective.
However, it was impossible to start X again.

Normally, I use the command "startx" as normal user to start the X. But after the above changes, the command "startx" would no longer work. So, I deleted the file ~/.xinitrc, and was able to start X again using the command "startx".

It seems that making a file by the name of ~/.xinitrc somehow violates the settings of xfce. I am looking forward to recommendations to make the compose key work.

Thanks for reading this!

man startx explains that if you have ~/.xinitrc then it doesn't run the default script in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc. Copy that to your .xinitrc and modify it to do what you want.

The file /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc in my system points to another file by the name of /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.xfce
I copied this latter file to my home directory under the name of /home/user/.xinitrc
Also I added to the end of ~/.xinitrc this code: setxkbmap -option compose:ralt
The command "startx" now works when I log out of X. But the compose key still does not work.