John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net> writes: > On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:47:44 -0700 > Carl Johnson <ca...@peak.org> dijo: > >>That is why we were talking about the Compose and AltGr keys. I have a >>US keyboard and I just press the Compose key followed by "s" and "s" to >>get ß. Similarly, I can press Compose "'" and "a" to get á. The AltGr >>key will also allow access to alternate values of individual keys by >>holding down the AltGr key and pressing another key. For the >>US-international layout, the AltGr-a combination will give á, AltGr-s >>gives ß, AltGr-/ gives ¿. I am using unicode, but it works for all >>characters that the charset and locale allow. > > I have a US keyboard and I do not have an AltGr key. I do have two Alt > keys, one on either side of the spacebar, but neither works as you > describe. However, in Linux Ctrl-Shift-u plus the unicode value enters > any character contained in the font. > > How did you get a US keyboard with an AltGr key?
As others have already commented, I just reassigned some of the keys. I assigned the right windows key to be Compose and the left windows key to be AltGr. I use KDE and just use the Keyboard Layout section of settings to specify them as Xkb options. I am sure that Gnome has something similar, and probably other windowing environments as well. They actually just run the setxkbmap command to update the keyboard mapping that X11 uses. -- Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org -- 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/877hiw9pov....@oak.localnet
