On 1/16/19 2:43 AM, unman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 05:08:39PM +0200, Ivan Mitev wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 1/15/19 2:42 PM, unman wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 09:26:31AM +0200, Ivan Mitev wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 1/15/19 3:36 AM, jrg.desk...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>> KEYBOARD
>>>>>
>>>>> How do I set the "compose" key on the keyboard? I have run several Linux
>>>>> distributions (base on Debian/Ubuntu) for several years and have had no
>>>>> problems setting a compose key so that I could enter diacriticals and
>>>>> symbols like the em-dash and the Spanish upside down exclamation and
>>>>> question marks.
>>>>
>>>> IIRC there's no gui setting in XFCE for setting a compose key. I don't
>>>> use such key myself but I guess you can edit dom0's
>>>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf and add XkbOptions there (eg.
>>>> Option "XkbOptions" "compose:menu"). Run `grep "compose:"
>>>> /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst` to find what keys you can use.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The default key combo is Shift+AltGR - enabled by default in X
>>> You can also set XkbOptions compose: in /etc/default/keyboard
>>
>> I thought that /etc/default/keyboard was only for debian and
>> derivatives. Are you sure it works for fedora ?
>
> Not really a Fedora person. Probably not. :-(
> On the other hand, I *do* find a GUI way of setting the key under System
> Settings/Keyboard in KDE, and in Xfce, under
> SystemTools-Keyboard-Layout.
Oh, you're right - as usual :)
I remember trying to assign a compose key looong ago and not finding
anything in XFCE ; a web search also returned many "XFCE doesn't provide
a way to set a compose key..." so I assumed there was still no GUI for that.
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