On 2009-02-18, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>> A dead key and a compose key are related, but not quite the
>> same thing. A dead key is one that when struck doesn't
>> generate a "letter" but instead modifies the "letter" that's
>> generated by the next keystroke. Unlike a modifier like
>> shift/
That's a legacy behavior got from old typewriter machines in which the
accents did not move the carriage as normal characters did, just
printing the accent (that had to be high enough for upper case
letters) and waiting for the accented letter to do the move.
As far as I know, in KDE you may insta
On Dienstag 17 Februar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2009-02-17, Paul Hartman wrote:
> > There is a "US-International" layout that makes the right-alt
> > behave like Alt Gr, and allowing easier entry for non-English
> > (mostly Spanish) characters. I don't know if US-International
> > keyboards
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2009-02-17, Paul Hartman wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> So how do you enter accented or non-latin characters or
>>> ligatures or the like?
>>
>> I don't. The standard US English PC keyboard has nothin
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> What a compose key does is temporarily make the _next_ key
> struck act like a dead key.
>
> To enter รด, you strike compose, ^, o. Hitting compose makes
> the ^ key temporarily into a dead key.
It seems like a sensible way of doing things.
On 2009-02-17, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> It looks like the deadkeys problem was a known bug and should have
>> been fixed in 1.0.1-r2 (there is aterm-1.0.1-deadkeys.patch in the
>> portage tree). What version did you try?
>
> Great! Not sure why I didn't find that when I was Googling
> earlier.
Af
On 2009-02-17, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2009-02-17, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>>
The compose key still works fine in xjed, emacs, rxvt, mrxvt,
xterm, and dozens of GTK and Qt
On 2009-02-17, Paul Hartman wrote:
> There is a "US-International" layout that makes the right-alt
> behave like Alt Gr, and allowing easier entry for non-English
> (mostly Spanish) characters. I don't know if US-International
> keyboards actually exists or if it's just a virtual layout.
> Howeve
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2009-02-17, Paul Hartman wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>
>>> The compose key still works fine in xjed, emacs, rxvt, mrxvt,
>>> xterm, and dozens of GTK and Qt based apps. But, it doesn't
>>> work in ate
On 2009-02-17, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> The compose key still works fine in xjed, emacs, rxvt, mrxvt,
>> xterm, and dozens of GTK and Qt based apps. But, it doesn't
>> work in aterm or urxvt.
[...]
> I've never owned a keyboard with a "Com
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