Re: Entering Special Characters in new Gnome(Fedora 20)

[Ahmad Samir]

On 6 January 2014 16:03, Antonio Olivares <wingators(a)inbox.com&gt; wrote:

>  Dear folks,
>
>  I got to use a compose key in previous versions of gnome or using a
>  setxkbmap compose key when using other desktops.  But in this machine using
>  gnome, I can't do what I used to do:
>
>
>  https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/3.3/tips-specialchars.html.en#com...
>
>  I want to do the same here since adding command(setxkbmap -option
>  compose:ralt) to ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile does not work.  How can I add
>  compose key or is there a new way to do it?
>
>  Best Regards,
>
>
>  Antonio
>
>  [olivares@localhost Documents]$ uname -a
>  Linux localhost.localdomain 3.12.6-300.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 23
>  16:44:31 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>  [olivares@localhost Documents]$ cat /etc/fedora-release
>  Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug)
>  [olivares@localhost Documents]$
>
>  
It's probably GNOME applying its setxkbmap options and overwriting changes
that your command in ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile did.

You can the compose key using gnome-control-center -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts
-> Typing.



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