keyboard remapping

Greetings.

I'm running Debian unstable on AMD64. I have X and (for the time
being), GNOME. My locales are en_US.UTF-8, although i'd rather they
were pt_PT.UTF-8 by default. My keyboard map is portuguese, it has
deadkeys. In particular, the ^ key. If i press ^ and e, i'll get ê.
I'd like to do the same with 6 other letters and there are 3 ways.

- The correct one, where ^+letter would result in that same letter with ^
- the lazy one, where AltGr+letter would be used (i was previously
using this in another machine)
- the practical one: typing ex would produce ê

After using xmodmap -pke i wrote this file, called .eoklavoj:
keycode 30 = u U ubreve Ubreve downarrow uparrow
keycode 39 = s S scircumflex Scircumflex ssharp section
keycode 42 = g G gcircumflex Gcircumflex eng ENG
keycode 43 = h H hcircumflex Hcircumflex hstroke Hstroke
keycode 44 = j J jcircumflex Jcircumflex
keycode 54 = c C ccircumflex Ccircumflex cent copyright

...which is in my home. So issuing "xmodmap .eoklavoj" would produce
the desired effect. If i issue "xmodmap -pke" again, in fact those
letters appear to be changed. However, in terminal, xchat, iceweasel,
gedit, abiword, etc, etc they still have thir normal AltGr+
funtionality. C, for instance, still produces ¢ and (c), noc
c_with_circumflex.

This would be the lazy way. The output of xmodmap -pke does show all
the letters i want to change, and also the [~^] key, which is:
keycode 51 = dead_tilde dead_circumflex dead_grave dead_breve
dead_grave dead_breve
However, i couldn't find where is it defined which letters get to be
accented. I can easily produce ã, but not ~s for instance. If i want
to do it the right way instead of the easy way i'd need this
information and probably wouldn't need to fiddle with xmodmap.

This is xev's output when i press AltGr+s:
KeyPress event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0x2c00001,
root 0x135, subw 0x0, time 4196303626, (87,-7), root:(91,41),
state 0x10, keycode 113 (keysym 0xfe03, ISO_Level3_Shift), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0x2c00001,
root 0x135, subw 0x0, time 4196303829, (87,-7), root:(91,41),
state 0x90, keycode 39 (keysym 0xdf, ssharp), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c3 9f) "ß"
XmbLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c3 9f) "ß"
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0x2c00001,
root 0x135, subw 0x0, time 4196303912, (87,-7), root:(91,41),
state 0x90, keycode 39 (keysym 0xdf, ssharp), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c3 9f) "ß"

KeyRelease event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0x2c00001,
root 0x135, subw 0x0, time 4196304038, (87,-7), root:(91,41),
state 0x90, keycode 113 (keysym 0xfe03, ISO_Level3_Shift), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:

I've tried this in windowmaker, same thing. I've tried it under root,
same thing. What am i missing here?

Please do not quote my whole message when replying.

--
Fica bem, porta-te mal.
Be well, misbehave.

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