On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 14:42, Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
<snip> > All I really want is for circumflex, > apostrophe, backward apostrophe, quote, and perhaps comma to turn into > dead keys so I can put accents on letters. > > Any other ideas? I think what you really need is one of the US international keyboard layouts or possibly just a compose key. IMs are mostly for complicated stuff, like CJK and some southeast Asian languages in /etc/default/keyboard XKBMODEL="pc104" XKBLAYOUT="us" XKBVARIANT="intl" or XKBVARIANT="alt-intl" or XKBVARIANT="altgr-intl" intl mostly gives you extra characters that you can type with "altgr" (right alt), e.g. <altgr><q> to get ä, <altgr><a> to get á I haven't used alt-intl or altgr-intl myself, but I think it goes like this: alt-intl is deadkey oriented, meaning you type things like <doublequote><a> to get ä. To get just " you would type <doublequote><space><space> "altgr-intl" I believe gets you dead keys that are triggered only when you press the <altgr> and the would-be deadkey. This is somewhat(?) similar to using XKBOPTIONS="compose:altgr" without a layout variant. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimizqvjyxnktvf0mgoxj2ptlmpcg_g9jymej...@mail.gmail.com
