On 4/11/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 13:16:57 -0500, Manon Metten wrote: > On 4/11/07, Alok G. Singh wrote: > > > > On 11 Apr 2007, steefvanduin AT zonnet DOT nl wrote: > > > > >> So basically, what I want is to press a dead key and than a vowel > > >> to produce an accented char. How do I achieve this? > > > > You can do that with a 'Compose' key. Here [1] is a guide for > > GNOME/GTK+. You can do the same thing with xmodmap as well. I suppose > > KDE would have a similar option. > > > > Footnotes: > > [1] > > http://process-of-elimination.net/wiki/Means_of_Composing_Accented_Characters_in_X_Window_System > > Thanks Alok, > > I'm gonna check this out, but at first glance it looks like no easy way to > do. In KDE you can go to "Control Center > Regional & Accessibility > Keyboard Layout" and click on the "Xkb Options" tab on the right hand side. If you check "Enable xkb options" you can fine-tune the behavior of many keys. Scroll down a bit and you will see "Compose Key Position" with about 5 options. Select one of them, e.g. "Right Win-key is compose" and you can do things like this: press <compose key> then " then a = ä press <compose key> then ' then a = á press <compose key> then / then o = ø press <compose key> then o then a = å press <compose key> then ^ then o = ô press <compose key> then s then s = ß press <compose key> then , then c = ç press <compose key> then ~ then n = ñ press <compose key> then / then c = ¢ etc.
Wow, great! Thanks Florian, this was exactly what I was looking for. The key combinations are somewhat different then what I was used to on my very old Amiga, but logical and easy to remember. Thank you so much. Greetings, Manon.
