The Wednesday 21 August 2013 23:37:25, Bob Proulx wrote : > I am helping someone configure their Debian system. They said they > wished to type in "special" characters. Which I assumed meant > accented characters. > > I had previously read: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/01/msg02068.html > > And that pointed me off to the very nicely written article: > > > http://zuttobenkyou.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/xorg-using-the-us-internation > al-altgr-intl-variant-keyboard-layout/ > > That seemed to have been the best recommendation. So I went off and > set up: > > setxkbmap -rules evdev -model evdev -layout us -variant altgr-intl > > All worked perfectly as described. Accented characters are easily > input. But then the follow-up came back that they wanted to input the > bar characters āēīōū. And I don't see how to input bar characters > with the above. > > Because now I know that specifically they want to input the barred > characters āēīōū what would be possible methods to type those in that > I should recommend to them? > > Thanks! > Bob
See http://userbase.kde.org/ComposeKey Same can be found for gnome and others. Usefull info can be found there too: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ComposeKey Thierry -- 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/201308221050.21636.tchate...@free.fr
