Re: [PLUG] Nordic, Russian keyboards

2022-10-25 Thread Galen Seitz
On 10/24/22 22:05, John Jason Jordan wrote: ... I could do the same thing for any other language that requires completely non-Latin characters. But I also sometimes write in Spanish, French and German, and for those I just use the Compose key rather than switch to a completely different

Re: [PLUG] Nordic, Russian keyboards

2022-10-25 Thread Russell Senior
On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 8:29 PM Tomas Kuchta wrote: > May I ask - what the . is Compose key? Is that Apple computer keyboard > thing? > > I don't think I have ever seen/used keyboard with it. Perhaps, I am lucky?? > You can assign a key (at least in Gnome land) to be the Compose key. I tend

Re: [PLUG] Nordic, Russian keyboards

2022-10-25 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Tue, Oct 25, 2022, 11:29 Galen Seitz wrote: > > Huh. I didn't know that the Compose key could be used in that way. I > always use it as a separate keystroke, not as a shift-like modifier. I > just tried it here and it works as you described. I wonder if this > works due to key rollover

Re: [PLUG] Nordic, Russian keyboards

2022-10-25 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 23:29:00 -0400 Tomas Kuchta dijo: >May I ask - what the . is Compose key? Is that Apple computer >keyboard thing? > >I don't think I have ever seen/used keyboard with it. Perhaps, I am >lucky?? It's a setting that you can add to most desktop environments. In Xfce it's

Re: [PLUG] Nordic, Russian keyboards

2022-10-25 Thread wes
On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 8:29 PM Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > May I ask - what the . is Compose key? Is that Apple computer keyboard > thing? > > the wiki article was literally linked 2 messages before the one you quoted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key -wes

Re: [PLUG] Nordic, Russian keyboards

2022-10-25 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 08:29:05 -0700 Galen Seitz dijo: >On 10/24/22 22:05, John Jason Jordan wrote: >... >> I could do the same thing for any other language that requires >> completely non-Latin characters. But I also sometimes write in >> Spanish, French and German, and for those I just use the