15:16 <anarcat> okay so here's a weird one

15:16 <anarcat> i love the url browser (control-shift-u) but i *just* realized it conflicts with a keybinding often used by other applications, which is "control-shift-u then a number sequence to enter arbitrary unicode characters"

15:16 <anarcat> is there an equivalent command in foot? or even wayland in general, for that matter?

15:17 <anarcat> what about the Compose key, does that even exist in wayland?

15:50 <dnkl> anarcat: "unicode input" is usually handled by an IME. And yes, at least in GNOME the default binding collides. You can just change foot's URL binding.

15:51 <dnkl> foot also as a very basic unicode input mode

15:51 <dnkl> it's not bound by default

15:51 <anarcat> oh interesting

15:51 <dnkl> search for unicode-input in foot.ini(5)

15:51 <anarcat> ack thanks!

15:52 <dnkl> anarcat: also, https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/issues/1183

15:52 <anarcat> that looks like what i'm looking for

15:53 <anarcat> if i disable control-shift-u (or rather, reassign show-urls-launch elsewhere), control-shift-u doesn't fall back to "enter unicode hex" thing

15:54 <anarcat> assigning it to control-shift-u seems to be good enough though :)

15:54 <anarcat> assigning unicode-input, that said

15:54 <dnkl> IME on Wayland is a mess, honestly

15:54 <anarcat> now i need to rewire my brain for control-shift-u

15:54 <dnkl> which compositor are you using?

15:54 <anarcat> sway

15:55 <anarcat> moderately happy, it seems to crash from time to time

15:55 <dnkl> Sway doesn't support IME popups. And not all IMEs support the wayland IME protocols implemented by sway...

15:56 <dnkl> fcitx5 is known to work (minus popups)

15:58 <dnkl> anarcat: fwiw, I use ctrl+shift+u for URL mode, and ctrl+shift+alt+u for foot's unicode input. But honestly, I usually just copy-paste "unicode" chars into foot...

15:58 <anarcat> heh

15:58 <dnkl> at least emojis, for which I have a fuzzel-based picker

16:10 <dnkl> anarcat: re. compose; not sure, as I've never used that myself. But assuming it is handled like dead keys, then yes, that's supported

16:11 <anarcat> it's handled, amazingly

16:11 <anarcat> using the Xcompose file too

16:12 <anarcat> i guess wayland still uses Xorg after all

16:12 <dnkl> not really. But keyboard handling is exactly the same: both use xkb

16:12 <anarcat> and the x in xkb is...? :)

16:12 <dnkl> xkb was created when X11 was the only kid in town 😂

16:13 <dnkl> now there's usually a package called "libxkbcommon", that contains the non-X11 specifics...

18:19 <c7s> does any compositor support IME popups?

19:21 <dnkl> GNOME... other than that; unsure. I think I've seen some, but can't remember any names