Custom Compose Key with `equal to` symbol

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Locale:

$ localectl status
System Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
    VC Keymap: gb
   X11 Layout: gb

In my ~/.XCompose, I have the following

include "%L"

# Approximate Sign
## Refer: [Difference between "≈", "≃", and "≅" - Mathematics Stack Exchange](https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/864606/difference-between-%E2%89%88-%E2%89%83-and-%E2%89%85)
<Multi_key> <asciitilde> <asciitilde>   : "≈" # almost equal to (U+2248)
<Multi_key> <equal> <asciitilde>   : "≃" # asymptotically equal to, congruent (U+2243)
<Multi_key> <equal> <equal> <asciitilde>   : "≅" # approximately equal to (U+2245)

Help Request

  1. But only ≈ works! Any suggestions on why the sequence with <equal> doesn’t work?
  2. I checked xmodmap -pke and = is refered as equal so I used this keyword in ~/.XCompose, is this how one is suppose to name the symbols in this file?
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The first is defined upstream. That’s why the first works.

The 2nd and 3rd should work after you log out and and back in, or restart ibus-daemon.

To restart ibus-daemon, I use this alias:

alias ibus-restart='/usr/bin/ibus-daemon --replace --panel disable </dev/null &>/dev/null & disown'

To define your own alias, first determine what command your graphical desktop environment used to invoke ibus-daemon:

$ pgrep ibus-daemon | xargs --no-run-if-empty ps -o command
COMMAND
/usr/bin/ibus-daemon --panel disable
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I restarted my system and still those compse sequence won’t work!