Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-02-03 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 01 February 2012 14:37:42 Curt wrote: No, the _OP_ said he had a standard _US_ keyboard, which doesn't have a compose key, which is why this thread exists in the first place (that, and the OP's shaky Google Fu). Sorry, Curt. I thought that I had checked carefully, but obviously I

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-02-03 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 02 February 2012 20:33:58 Kelly Clowers wrote: But you never even mentioned standard keyboard. It is true you were quoted I know. That is part of my point! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-02-02 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 02:22, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 30 January 2012 20:39:54 Kelly Clowers wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 09:29, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2012-01-30, ***Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:*** By the way, what's a standard keyboard?  Is that a

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-02-02 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 09:25, Chris Davies chris-use...@roaima.co.uk wrote: Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, he actually said standard US keyboard. Which does not have an AltGr key, unlike every civilized country facepalm. Sigh! The Gnome compose key can be assigned to any

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-02-01 Thread Lisi
On Monday 30 January 2012 20:39:54 Kelly Clowers wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 09:29, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2012-01-30, ***Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:*** By the way, what's a standard keyboard?  Is that a well-defined thing? Is it Ammurukin? No, she didn't. I said nothing of

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-02-01 Thread Curt
On 2012-02-01, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 30 January 2012 20:39:54 Kelly Clowers wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 09:29, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2012-01-30, ***Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:*** By the way, what's a standard keyboard?  Is that a well-defined thing? Is

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-02-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-02-01 14:37:42 +, Curt wrote: No, the _OP_ said he had a standard _US_ keyboard, which doesn't have a compose key, which is why this thread exists in the first place (that, and the OP's shaky Google Fu). But it's all right because all he has to do is the following (I think):

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-02-01 Thread Chris Davies
Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, he actually said standard US keyboard. Which does not have an AltGr key, unlike every civilized country facepalm. Sigh! The Gnome compose key can be assigned to any of the control keys, so perhaps Right Alt would suffice. I'm sure that the X

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-30 Thread Lisi
On Monday 30 January 2012 02:00:54 Thomas H. George wrote: I was trying to use directory completion as the directory in question was extremely long and that didn't work. When I try to use tab completion and it fails it has always been because of some typo I had made. Lisi -- To

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-30 Thread Michael Lange
Thus spoketh Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info unto us on Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:00:54 -0500: Incidently, none of the other proposed solutions work. There is no xorg.conf any more or at least it is no longer needed. Sorry, I should have mentioned this, if you need an xorg.conf you can

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-30 Thread Curt
On 2012-01-30, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: When I try to use tab completion and it fails it has always been because of some typo I had made. Have you ever tried tab completion with a wildcard, which is the case in hand? I created a directory with an accented character in it and

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-30 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 18:00, Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 07:39:22PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 03:40:51PM -0500, doug wrote: On 01/28/2012 02:40 PM, Michael Lange wrote: Hi, Thus spoketh Thomas H.

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-30 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 09:29, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2012-01-30, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: By the way, what's a standard keyboard?  Is that a well-defined thing? Is it Ammurukin? Yes, he actually said standard US keyboard. Which does not have an AltGr key, unlike every civilized

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-30 Thread Curt
On 2012-01-30, Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com wrote: By the way, what's a standard keyboard?  Is that a well-defined thing? Is it Ammurukin? Yes, he actually said standard US keyboard. Which does not have an AltGr key, unlike every civilized country facepalm. Okay, I finally

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-29 Thread Curt
On 2012-01-28, Michael Lange klappn...@freenet.de wrote: Ripit created a directory name which starts with an accented character. I want to rename the directory. With xlsfonts, xfontsel and xfd I have found a font set which contains the character but have not figured out how to use it from a

[OT] Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-29 Thread Michael Lange
of a fictional gnat. Or am I missing something? Maybe, sort of ;) Now, as far as I could see, the question was Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard? , so what's wrong with trying to answer what appears to be a perfectly legal question ? BTW, your own suggestion has already

Re: [OT] Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-29 Thread Curt
On 2012-01-29, Michael Lange klappn...@freenet.de wrote: Now, as far as I could see, the question was Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard? , so what's wrong with trying to answer what appears to be a perfectly legal question ? Well, that's what the subject says (I never

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-29 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 07:39:22PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 03:40:51PM -0500, doug wrote: On 01/28/2012 02:40 PM, Michael Lange wrote: Hi, Thus spoketh Thomas H. Georgeli...@tomgeorge.info unto us on Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:19:09 -0500: /snip/ You can set

Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-28 Thread Thomas H. George
Ripit created a directory name which starts with an accented character. I want to rename the directory. With xlsfonts, xfontsel and xfd I have found a font set which contains the character but have not figured out how to use it from a standard US keyboard. Is there an easy way to do this? Tom

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-28 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, Thus spoketh Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info unto us on Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:19:09 -0500: Ripit created a directory name which starts with an accented character. I want to rename the directory. With xlsfonts, xfontsel and xfd I have found a font set which contains the character but

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-28 Thread Teemu Likonen
[ 2012-01-28 20:40:27 +0100 ] Michael Lange wrote: You can even setup custom key combinations in case you can locate the correct file for that; here I have a file ~/.XCompose, but changes to this file are ignored by gtk apps , and xterm and friends seem to be unable to handle certain

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-28 Thread doug
On 01/28/2012 02:40 PM, Michael Lange wrote: Hi, Thus spoketh Thomas H. Georgeli...@tomgeorge.info unto us on Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:19:09 -0500: /snip/ 3rd person singular preterite is spake You can set up a compose key; here I have added Option XkbOptions compose:Super_R to the

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-28 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 28 January 2012 20:40:51 doug wrote: 3rd person singular preterite is spake +1 And what is wrong with said? Without the Thus? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-28 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 03:40:51PM -0500, doug wrote: On 01/28/2012 02:40 PM, Michael Lange wrote: Hi, Thus spoketh Thomas H. Georgeli...@tomgeorge.info unto us on Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:19:09 -0500: /snip/ You can set up a compose key; here I have added Option XkbOptions

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-28 Thread green
Thomas H. George wrote at 2012-01-28 10:19 -0600: Ripit created a directory name which starts with an accented character. I want to rename the directory. found a font set which contains the character but have not figured out how to use it from a standard US keyboard. Instead of bothering