Mick: >On Friday 10 April 2009, Hartmut Figge wrote: >> ----- xorg.conf ----- >> Option "XkbOptions" "compose:menu" >> --------------- > >What is the meaning of the "compose:menu"?
Sometimes i need to input special characters like e.g. ç with my keyboard and need a way to do so. That's what the compose key is for. To input ç i press the compose key, release it and then , followed by c. Or é which is a combination of ' and e. /usr/share/keymaps/include/compose.latin1 contains some of the possibilities. So i have need of a compose key. Years ago there was a combination of AltGr and Shift_Left which could be used but that stopped to work. So, what key to take? Caps_Lock seemed fine, first, but this caused trouble in some games under wine in which i needed the original functionality of Caps_Lock. Hm, i guess it was Gothic 1. But the Menu_Key, that is the one left of Control_Right, was perfect. Hartmut
