Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 18:00, Thomas H. George <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 07:39:22PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote:
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 03:40:51PM -0500, doug wrote:
On 01/28/2012 02:40 PM, Michael Lange wrote:
Hi,

Thus spoketh "Thomas H. George"<lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
unto us on Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:19:09 -0500:

/snip/

You can set up a compose key; here I have added

    Option         "XkbOptions" "compose:Super_R"

to the Keyboard section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and now I can use the right
one of the "Windows" keys as compose key, most of the default key
combinations are quite intuitive, for example if I press the ComposeKey
followed by an "a" and an apostrophe I get á , or an "o" followed by a
slash gives ø and so on.
.snip/

You can even setup custom key combinations in case you can locate the
correct file for that; here I have a file ~/.XCompose, but changes to
this file are ignored by gtk apps , and xterm and friends seem to be
unable to handle certain characters.

Why not just use a US Intl with deadkeys keyboard layout?
I use it (I type in four languages, comes in very handy:
ñ é à ô ü þ ð µ ç etc., all very easy to type).

./tony

What is the deadkeys keyboard layout and how do I install/use it?

Incidently, none of the other proposed solutions work.  There is no
xorg.conf any more or at least it is no longer needed.

That is because that line hasn't belonged in xorg.conf for a long time.
It should be in /etc/default/keyboard

see e.g.:
http://debian-user.blogspot.com/2010/06/etcdefaultkeyboard-replaces.html

directory completion
try using menu-complete in ~/.inputrc

http://linuxart.com/log/archives/2005/10/13/super-useful-inputrc/

Very handy for odd filenames.

In theory what I want is to use the console_codes ^N and ^O to shift
between to font sets, ESC ) N to load a user defined font in G1 and
mapscrn or setfont to make the user defined font start with the
characters from 128 to 255.  In practice I can't make any of these
commands work.

Why worry about changing fonts? Just use a font that has
characters for as much of unicode as you need.

Cheers,
Kelly Clowers


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