How do I define a compose key in X?  I have not defined a locale.  

In NetBSD 1.5, with XFree86 3.x, I could type a 3-character sequence to
get the Swedish A-with-a-circle-on-top.  The Compose key on that machine
was <ctrl>+<shift>+T:

$ grep aring /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose 
<Multi_key> <a> <asterisk>              : "\345"        aring
<Multi_key> <asterisk> <a>              : "\345"        aring
Ctrl<T> <a> <asterisk>                  : "\345"        aring
Ctrl<T> <asterisk> <a>                  : "\345"        aring

Now I have XFree86 4.4 (on i386), and the Ctrl<T> are gone.  With my
keyboard defined as:

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "keyboard"
	Option	    "XkbLayout"   "us_intl"
	Option	    "XkbVariant"  "nodeadkeys"
EndSection

(I *think* I need us_intl.  I set nodeadkeys because dead keys -- now that
I know what they are -- are annoying.  If I type '~', I see nothing
because the system is waiting for me to type, say, 'n', to get
n-with-tilde.  It gets swallowed unless followed by the space bar.  Very
annoying if you want, say, to access your home directory. )

AFAICT, there's no default Compose key defined for me.  I tried creating
an Xmodmap file:

$ cat ~/.Xmodmap 
keycode 78 = Multi_key

as suggested in the Linux Danish HOWTO.  It isn't honored, according to
xev:

KeyPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x1400001,
    root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 1841902, (-609,-496), root:(1001,636),
    state 0x0, keycode 78 (keysym 0xff14, Scroll_Lock), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x1400001,
    root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 1842023, (-609,-496), root:(1001,636),
    state 0x80, keycode 78 (keysym 0xff14, Scroll_Lock), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 

Google in this case is littered with dead ends and references to obsolete
solutions.  What's the Right Way nowadays?  

Many thanks....

--jkl



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