On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 18:00, Thomas H. George <li...@tomgeorge.info> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 07:39:22PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: >> 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"<li...@tomgeorge.info> >> > >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 > > What is the deadkeys keyboard layout and how do I install/use it? > > Incidently, none of the other proposed solutions work. There is no > xorg.conf any more or at least it is no longer needed.
That is because that line hasn't belonged in xorg.conf for a long time. It should be in /etc/default/keyboard see e.g.: http://debian-user.blogspot.com/2010/06/etcdefaultkeyboard-replaces.html >directory completion try using menu-complete in ~/.inputrc http://linuxart.com/log/archives/2005/10/13/super-useful-inputrc/ Very handy for odd filenames. > In theory what I want is to use the console_codes ^N and ^O to shift > between to font sets, ESC ) N to load a user defined font in G1 and > mapscrn or setfont to make the user defined font start with the > characters from 128 to 255. In practice I can't make any of these > commands work. Why worry about changing fonts? Just use a font that has characters for as much of unicode as you need. 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/CAFoWM=_RyxruLwZpGQe=lwvcrtktat-jzcqrubq6yfbowpf...@mail.gmail.com
