On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 03:40:51PM -0500, doug wrote: > On 01/28/2012 02:40 PM, Michael Lange wrote: > >Hi, > > > >Thus spoketh "Thomas H. George"<[email protected]> > >unto us on Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:19:09 -0500: > > > /snip/
> >You can set up a compose key; here I have added > > > > Option "XkbOptions" "compose:Super_R" > > > >to the Keyboard section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and now I can use the right > >one of the "Windows" keys as compose key, most of the default key > >combinations are quite intuitive, for example if I press the ComposeKey > >followed by an "a" and an apostrophe I get á , or an "o" followed by a > >slash gives ø and so on. > .snip/ > > > >You can even setup custom key combinations in case you can locate the > >correct file for that; here I have a file ~/.XCompose, but changes to > >this file are ignored by gtk apps , and xterm and friends seem to be > >unable to handle certain characters. Why not just use a US Intl with deadkeys keyboard layout? I use it (I type in four languages, comes in very handy: ñ é à ô ü þ ð µ ç etc., all very easy to type). ./tony -- http://www.tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
