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On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Tony Harris wrote:
Not positive if this is true for KDE as well, but on GNOME I have both the US
and US-International keyboards configured, and activate the Gnome toolbar
applet that lets me switch between them.
Then when you want something like é you just type apostrophe followed by e
and you get it.
I just turn a key (usually the right Windows key, or right Alt on
keyboards that lack one) into Compose using xmodmap, which is handled at the
X level and window manager/desktop environment independent. There's probably
a way to assign a Compose key that'll work even at a console terminal (it
does on my SPARCstation, which has an actual Compose key on the keyboard),
but I haven't really felt the need to investigate that.
Anyway, it's:
xmodmap -e "keycode 116 = Multi_key"
... somewhere in the X startup. At least on this keyboard. I've found that
the keycodes for the expanded keys aren't well standardized, though. xev is
handy for figuring out what X actually thinks they are.
So to get é, I just type [Compose] [e] [']... é. ñ is
[Compose] [n] [~]... ñ.
I just hope I've got the character set on my email set up right so
that those show up the way they're supposed to...
- --
John Campbell
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