On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Civileme wrote:

> John Aldrich wrote:
> 
> > I asked this in the KDE list and someone said to use the Shift+AltGr
> > key to get special characters (such as the cents sign, etc)
> > Unfortunately, even after discovering that on MY keyboard the AltGr
> > key is the right-alt key, I'm still unable to get it to work. This is
> > supposedly the "compose" key, but nothing happens when I hit that
> > combo plus a couple others (such as "/" and 'c' together which is
> > supposed to allow me to get the cents symbol!)
> > Any ideas??? FWIW, I"m using a true-blue IBM PS/2 keyboard here, a
> > standard 101-key keyboard, with no "Windows" keys or anything like
> > that. :-)
> > Thanks...
> >         John

Try it without the shift key
 
> Ummm,
> 
> You've probably already checked this, but what does /etc/X11/XF86Config
> say about your keyboard?  As I recall there are several different
> methods of setting up that "Meta" Key.  If you can track down a copy of
> the old "xf86config" program, it will interactively review most of them
> for you.
> 
> Civileme
> 

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