Re: Dead keys - actually key combinations...

From: Dances With Crows (danceswithcrows_at_usa.net)
Date: 08/26/03

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    On 25 Aug 2003 16:02:27 -0700, Stephen Honeycutt staggered into the
    Black Sun and said:
    > I use special characters for my passwords:
    > (ie - é ª © ® ² ¶)
    >
    > Does anyone have any idea how to use a similar functionality in linux?
    > Dead keys - I got those down now, but is there a list of combinations,
    > do I have to create a whole list of them to use all the other special
    > characters out there? Please elucidate...

    The way to enter "special characters" in X used to be simple: You
    used key combinations kind of like so:

    Multi_key + ` , then press e = è

    ...there's a list of all the possible Multi_key mappings in
    /usr/lib/X11/locale/$LOCALE . So all you needed to do was map a key
    somewhere on your keyboard to the Multi_key . This was done like so:

    xmodmap -e 'keycode 109 = Multi_key'

    ...which makes the key with keycode 109 (right-hand Ctrl on my keyboard)
    be the Multi_key.

    All of this worked fine from X 4.0 through 4.2.1 . Since I upgraded to
    X 4.3, it doesn't work at all for me. Here's the relevant section of my
    /etc/X11/XF86Config (which hasn't changed since X 4.1.0):

    Section "InputDevice"
      Driver "keyboard"
      Identifier "Keyboard[0]"
      Option "Protocol" "Standard"
      Option "XkbKeyCodes" "xfree86"
      Option "XkbLayout" "us"
      Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
      Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
    EndSection

    > Newbie in linux (do pros say this about themselves too?)

    Depends on a lot of things. I've been using Linux since 1999 and there
    are occasionally things that trip me up (like the @#$%ing X problem I
    mentioned above). There's always more to learn--scary, yet comforting
    at the same time.... 

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