On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 11:39:01AM +0100, Graham Trott wrote:
On Thursday 29 April 2004 05:53, Syd Hancock wrote:
You need to have a 'compose' key, this is a matter of settingup your keyboard map to assign 'compose' to some fairly easy key combination. On my Linux box at home I have it set to 'Shift Alt Gr', on my Sun box at work there is actually a Compose key.
Many thanks for the info. Following Mark's suggestion I have looked at man pages and googled for setxkbmap but I think I need some help here!
Is there a simple setxkbmap command to get the above key assignment (I don't have a windows key on this keyboard)? Or any other simple recommended method?
Syd
I just tried Mark's suggestion (setxkbmap -option compose:rwin) and to my great pleasure it worked. I then found another useful command:
dumpkeys --compose-only (that's double minus in front of 'compose')
which lists all your current compose settings. So for example, the French é is done by <compose> e ' and è is done by <compose> e ` where the last one is the backtick on the top left of most keyboards. It makes no difference if you type the letter before or after the accent.
Now to hope the above survives the trip to the list and back....
Yes, I get your é and è OK. Only those who have a display which can show ISO-8859 characters correctly will see them though.