apparently I'm a dinosaur

My UPS died today, so I went to the store to get a new one. It came with a USB cable and when I plugged it into my desktop an icon popped into the Gnome panel to show me my new UPS, how much charge it had, etc (and I assume shut it down when . Very cool, and honestly completely unexpected. I think a couple of years ago I would be much less impressed by this, but as I find my free time dwindling I really appreciate when things just work. It's also a small, but encouraging sign that "Desktop Linux" is making good progress.

Well it turns out my complaining about GNOME removing their nice keyboard option configuration capplet, was completely wrong. It's actually a bug in libxklavier10. The capplet didn't really indicate that their was actually a problem though, it just looked like all the options had been removed, which threw me off. Also got good advice how to set this in the xorg.conf directly. Thanks everyone for the nice advice.

Well now that GNOME 2.12 has hit unstable, it has kindly removed a feature I liked. The Keyboard Preferences applet used to allow me to do nice things like change Caps Lock to a Control key, and add turn a stupid Windows key into a highly useful Compose key. But I guess that was too much power for the user, so it got the axe in 2.12. I really think GNOME could benefit from some sort of global "Power User" switch, to allow actual customization.

Anyone have a recipe for enabling Compose with xkb?