I have received a number of answers, each of them useful in its own way, which nevertheless make me think that I am not totally alone in my confusion. Thanks to those answers, and to some investigation I've done on my own, I think I have pulled it off. Here is a summary of the steps I have taken:
1) Defined a compose key. This is done by means of the xmodmap command. A useful guide on how to do this can be found in http://www.sober.com/content/accented_characters.html I defined one of those Windows-only keys (so that it stops being useless) by means of xmodmap -e "keycode 117 = Multi_key" In my keyboard, keycode 117 corresponds to the Windows-only key directly to the left of the right control key. 2) In the Keyboard section of my XF86Config file I made sure I have the following lines: Option "LeftAlt" "Meta" Option "RightAlt" "ModeShift" Option "XkbLayout" "us_intl" 3) I added to my .Xdefaults file the following lines: vt100*EightBitInput: True XTerm*EightBitInput: True 4) In order to be able to type accented characters at the bash command line I just did as described in http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/bash 5) The list of key sequences that return accented characters can be found (in my Slackware distribution, at least) in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose That's it. I can't guarantee that this will work everywhere, and I am sure that some of the things I did were not necessary. The fact is, I can now do exactly what I wanted to do, and more - my intention was to get it to work under Evolution; as it happens, it now works in Evolution, terminal emulators (xterm, Eterm, which is what I use,) news reader (Pan) and browser (Galeon.) Thanks everybody for your feedback. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards� http://movies.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
