On 15-Sep-03 MJ Ray wrote:
I want to type characters like c-cedilla (French) and c-circumflex (Slavic) easily. I cannot get the compose key or the dead_circumflex character in xmodmap to work for anything other than combining a circumflex with a space to produce ^.
There's a possible confusion here (apologies if I'm wrong in your case, but what you write sugegsts it). What you call "c-circumflex (Slavic)" is not c-circumflex but c-hacek (the accent is like an upside-down circumflex), as in Czech. Is this a possible source of the non- cooperation? You would probably need to make sure (if using iso-8859-X 256-byte font encodings) that you have iso-8859-2 (aka ISO-Latin-2) fonts ("Central Eurpoean") available. At the end of the day, Unicode will solve these problems, since it uses multibyte encoding (and probably has a code for anything a 2-year-old might scribble on paper). However, it is only now beginning to necome available on Linux.
Ted.
Redefining keys with xmodmap,
eg: keycode 54 = c C ccircumflex Ccircumflex doesn't work either (output of xmodmap -pm gives: shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e) lock Caps_Lock (0x42) control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d) mod1 Alt_L (0x40) mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d) mod3 mod4 Super_L (0x73), Super_R (0x74) mod5 ISO_Level3_Shift (0x71) in case I've got a modifier wrong.)
That used to work with XFree86 3.3.1, using AltGr-c to give c-circumflex. Indeed, it's the same xmodmap file and the same pc105 gb keyboard settings in the config file (but a different place), but I am now using XFree86 version 4.3.0. If someone knows what is wrong, please tell me. If I can give more helpful info, please tell me what you want.
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