Special Characters

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Thu Jun 16 12:36:58 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 00:24 -0600, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> Antonio Olivares wrote:
> 
> > You can use the compose command and set it up in ~/.bashrc
> > Add a line
> > 
> > setxkbmap -option compose:ralt &
> 
> I use the menu key, to the right of right-alt, since right-alt is also known as 
> Alt-Gr and it has a different function than left-alt.
> 
> left-alt-m does not print µ, while right-alt-m does print µ.
> 
> For this reason, I prefer not to lose the right-alt functionality. Menu is not 
> used in Linux, I think, only in windows, so it can be used for compose.

I don't even have a Menu key, nor anything labeled Windows, which makes
life easier :-)

poc



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