On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 10:02:20PM +0100, Franco Martelli wrote: > I read that for custom sequence I've to create a ~/.XCompose file, but where > can I find the character to map i.e. Greek letters: "α" "β" "γ" ?
It's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem, admittedly. What I did was find a web page that had these characters on it, and then copy/pasted them. > In "/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose" file the ALPHA char is > defined as: > > <dead_greek> <a> : "α" U03B1 # GREEK SMALL LETTER > ALPHA > > What stands for <dead_greek> ? That's a new one to me. Presumably there must exist some keyboard, somewhere, which has such a key. If that's the route you want to take, and if you don't have this key, then you'll use xmodmap to remap something to become dead_greek. One of the Alt or Super keys, for example. <https://askubuntu.com/questions/787113/compose-dead-greek-with-compose-key> seems to have some partial answers you can use as a starting point. I simply went with this instead: <Multi_key> <g> <a> : "α" <Multi_key> <g> <b> : "β" <Multi_key> <g> <g> : "γ" <Multi_key> <g> <d> : "δ" and so on.
