The way I have done it is by giving some use to one of my windows(tm)
keys. I added this to my keyboard's section in xorg.conf:

Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"

What it does is make the right windows key a sort of magic key, the
compose key. This does pretty much what it sounds like it does, it
allows you to compose more complex letters, like those with accents or
whatever, the keystroke chains are pretty obvious, here are a few
examples (because I have some time on my hands...blah):

rwin - n - ~    =    ñ
rwin - a - "    =    ä
rwin - A - "    =    Ä
rwin - ^ - 0    =    °
rwin - o - '    =    ó
rwin - o - `    =    ò

Ok you get the point. You should also know that this only works under X
(though I think there's a way to do it in console...), and that the
keystrokes need not be simultaneous. That is, you don't still have to be
holding down rwin while you press the next key in the sequence, you can
just press each individually and it'll know what you want.

Anyone wanna write a wikipage? :D

-S

On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 06:09:39PM -0700, cactus wrote:
> James Rayner wrote:
> >>I think we shouldn't mess with this path at all. The actual questione
> >>here is: where does cactus' keyboard got an 'ö' from :P
> >>
> >where else but microsoft character map!
> >
> >>-tobbi
> >iphitus
> 
> Actually, it was a magical paste from a webpage into an email. Hooray 
> for paste!
> 


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