I've had a lengthy interchange on another group about this topic, but
thus far no success for me although it seens to work for most people.
I would like to be able to generate the standard international
characters (umlaut vowels, Spanish reversed qustion marks, acute acented
vowels, etc.) via some combintion of keystrokes. My fonts have good
support, and such character are displayed ok in mozilla and sylpheed,
but I have not been able to find a way to generate the characters in any
X application. Lots of googling, but no joy.
I have the following keyboard definitions in my XF86Config:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us_intl"
Option "XkbOptions"
"grp:lwin_switch,lv3:rwin_switch,grp_led:scroll,compose:menu"
Using xev, I see that these keys (Win left and right and Win Menu
keys) have the desired options:
KeyPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,
root 0x38, subw 0x0, time 6432368, (81,494), root:(1015,518),
state 0x0, keycode 115 (keysym 0xff7e, Mode_switch), same_screen
YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: ""
KeyPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,
root 0x38, subw 0x0, time 6435868, (81,494), root:(1015,518),
state 0x0, keycode 116 (keysym 0xfe03, ISO_Level3_Shift),
same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: ""
KeyPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,
root 0x38, subw 0x0, time 6440948, (81,494), root:(1015,518),
state 0x0, keycode 117 (keysym 0xff20, Multi_key), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes: ""
However, these keys are not recognized in conjunction with any other key
- I just get the underlying key. The us_intl keymap has several
characters that have a specified third option, but I can get only
unshifted and shifted to work.
What am I missing? How can I generate the desired characters using
some combination of keystrokes?
Thanks,
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