-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 * Carlos E. R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [10-09-07 11:05]: > The Tuesday 2007-10-09 at 11:10 +0200, Clayton wrote: > > There may be a Compose key somewhere... but I've never heard of it > > used it... being basically monolingual, with just enough knowledge of > > Dutch, German and Spanish to get myself into trouble, I haven't > > "needed" a Compose key, and I suspect the vast majority haven't > > either. > > X'-) > > > It might be a very good idea that this is enabled by default > > in .Xmodmap (if it isn't already? I'm not at home right now so can't > > check to see if Carlos' instructions work for me) > > I believe it is enabled by default.
no, and ~/.Xmodmap is not there unless you generate it yourself (since 10.1 or earlier ??). from cl "xmodmap" will show present key assignments, wahoo:~ > xmodmap -pk |grep -i compose [no output] > > and that this is > > clearly documented somewhere (ie keystrokes for the different chars). > > If we can make it clear that typing these chars is relatively easy to > > do, this might ease the pain of the transition a little.... > > It is documented, but I don't know where. examples exist: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/xmodmap.std - -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn4472 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHC5s9ClSjbQz1U5oRAie0AKCukvE9AZRZ51cmNZPCU8seXBziTwCgmPLy GZFL4Y/GBYVLE4Aonr7zR40= =/AJL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
