On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 06:21:47PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 08:13:01PM -0600, Dale A. Raby wrote: > > > > Mein Deutsch ist nicht gut, aber.... the umlaut characters disply just > > fine on my system. What I would like to know is how you type them on an > > English keyboard. Is there some way to do that? > > > > Yes, but it depends. In recent xorg, with a GB keyboard the dead > keys appear to come along automatically. The compositions are in > /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose (you can also use a > Compose key, but I haven't had recent success with that - only tried > it for some not-defined things, dead keys are easier) and the > symbols are in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us [ for the common case > of US-style QWERTY keyboards and latin alphabets ].
Update : there is probably NO consistence across keyboard layouts. I've still not managed to find *where* all of the AltGr 'dead' keys on my gb keyboard are *defined* (some are in the 'basic' variant but others aren't), but I'm happy just to use them. However, I thought I would try to work out where everything was in the us keymap in the altgr-intl variant. Turns out that almost everything is in a different place! So my updated advice is to use 'xmodmap -pk | grep dead' : you may need to try setting the different variants in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/XX [ where X is your country/keyboard code ] to find what is most useful. On us altgr-intl the following dead keys are available with AltGr [ I guess that should be described as "right Alt" for US keyboards ] - 2 double acute 3 macron 5 cedilla 6 circumflex 7 horn 8 ogonek ( [ shifted 9 ] breve ) [ shifted 0 ] above_ring _ [ shifted - ] below dot ' acute " [ shifted ' ] diaeresis ` grave ~ [shifted ` ] tilde . abovedot and of course dotless i (ı) > [ shifted . ] caron ? [ shifted / ] hook The horn and the hook are not available in gb, some of the other mappings are reasonable, others just need to be learned. Going back to the original question, umlaut/diaeresis is on AltGr " on the altgr-intl variant of the us keyboard ( or AltGr [ in gb ). For other keymaps you will have to search for your self using xmodmap. ĸen - dazed and confused --
