I saved this from a post that I cannot find now. Nor do I know the original subject.
<s/quote> The X server does keyboard mapping of keys and you can use X to map keys. If you have an international keyboard set up then X ships with compose functionality which for the subset of symbols it does is usually easier to learn.
Basically hit alt (left alt to US folks) and shift together, then let go of both, now type two keys in sequence that compose the resulting symbol.
The compose pairs are designed to be logical thus
ss = ß a' = á e^ = ê e= = € c, = ç
and so on <e/quote>
Where is the file that this would be done in so this would work?
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 01:03 -0400, linuxmaillists@charter.net wrote:
The X server does keyboard mapping of keys and you can use X to map keys. If you have an international keyboard set up then X ships with compose functionality which for the subset of symbols it does is usually easier to learn.
Basically hit alt (left alt to US folks) and shift together, then let go of both, now type two keys in sequence that compose the resulting symbol.
Where is the file that this would be done in so this would work?
You can use the keyboard preferences GUI, and play with the layout options to set which key is the compose key. Alt + Shift never worked for me, so I used the (otherwise) useless right-Windows key. My preferences seem to be set, by it, in this file:
/home/tim/.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd/%gconf.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?> <gconf> <entry name="options" mtime="1173340595" type="list" ltype="string"> <li type="string"> <stringvalue>Compose key compose:rwin</stringvalue> </li> </entry> </gconf>
On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Tim wrote:
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 01:03 -0400,
linuxmaillists@charter.net wrote:
The X server does keyboard mapping of keys and you can use X to map keys. If you have an international keyboard set up then X ships with compose functionality which for the subset of symbols it does is usually easier to learn.
Basically hit alt (left alt to US folks) and shift together, then let go of both, now type two keys in sequence that compose the resulting symbol.
Where is the file that this would be done in so this would work?
You can use the keyboard preferences GUI, and play with the layout options to set which key is the compose key. Alt + Shift never worked for me, so I used the (otherwise) useless right-Windows key. My preferences seem to be set, by it, in this file:
/home/tim/.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd/% gconf.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gconf> <entry name="options" mtime="1173340595" type="list" ltype="string"> <li type="string"> <stringvalue>Compose key compose:rwin</stringvalue> </li> </entry> </gconf>
Does any one know where/what the file I need would be on a KDE system?
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 11:05 -0400, linuxmaillists@charter.net wrote:
Does any one know where/what the file I need would be on a KDE system?
I don't, but if you can find the KDE GUI tool for configuring it, you could set it and grep through your personal configuration files for "ompose" (avoiding the need for "Compose" or "compose" wildcarding).
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