On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:29:00PM -0700, David Wright wrote: > I run the Gnome session manager on a Debian sid machine attached to a US > keyboard. When I am writing in English, which is most of the time, > that's fine. But I also often write in German and occasionally in > French. Is there a way to produce the standard accented characters (at > least in Gnome applications) using keyboard combinations? You can use the Multi_key on your keyboard. (You might have to assign a key to it with xmodmap).
Multi - O - " = Ö Multi - e - ` = è I have it assigned to that Menu key. > I'm very tired of mousing up to the little gnome character pallet > utility every few words when write a multi-page document. I'd like to be > able to do something like ALT-" + O to produce an umlauted O. Heh - there's an xmodmap command to put Multi on alt. > By the way, Windows has had this feature nailed down pat for about the > last decade. Same key combinations, doesn't depend on the window > manager, session manager, or application. Amazing. :-) X is frighteningly configurable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
