On Mon, Oct 06, 1997 at 01:27:31AM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > Can a windoze keyboard be configured, so those three extra keys can do > something interesting? > > Like act as a compose key? a meta key?
[megasig deleted] It can. There is a "Debian Keyboard Configuration Project" under way (http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-kbd/) that will make this easy. For now, look at its homepage for links to the relevant documentation. On Sun, Oct 05, 1997 at 11:39:41PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > I could not find any documentation on this except the compose key > combinations as output of dumpkeys. > > To be concrete: Which key or combination of keys do I have to press to be > able to compose something like ê or á? (I did this with emacs in the > iso-accents-mode). For the console, control dot is the default compose key (look for "Compose" in the dumpkeys output). > Is it the same for the console and in X? No. X has it's own mechanism. The keyboard configuration project aims to make the keyboard behaviour consistent across console, X etc. If you are interested in working on this, join the debian-i18n@lists.debian.org list. HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their own. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
