Re: Setting the compose key without KDE

2012-02-20 Thread Sian Mountbatten
Clive Standbridge wrote: Indeed it does, and I asked for the Left-Logo key. In the file /etc/default/keyboard I notice that the environment string XKBOPTIONS is set to "lv3:ralt_switch,compose:lwin,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" so obviously the configuration has done something. But what programs read

Re: Re: Setting the compose key without KDE

2012-02-20 Thread Clive Standbridge
> Indeed it does, and I asked for the Left-Logo key. In > the file /etc/default/keyboard I notice that the environment > > string XKBOPTIONS is set to > "lv3:ralt_switch,compose:lwin,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" so obviously > the configuration has done something. But what programs read that > file? I

Re: Setting the compose key without KDE

2012-02-19 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm not sure which programs read it, but compose key set with that way works in XFCE4. It doesn't seem to work in GNOME (3) for me, I don't know why. Left logo is my compose too and it and ^ and c gives me Ĉ. This might be because of my keyboard

Re: Setting the compose key without KDE

2012-02-19 Thread Sian Mountbatten
Mika Suomalainen wrote: Hi, Try running dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration as root. It will ask you what key you want to use as compose-key/multi-key. Indeed it does, and I asked for the Left-Logo key. In the file /etc/default/keyboard I notice that the environment string XKBOPTIONS is

Re: Setting the compose key without KDE

2012-02-19 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Try running > dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration as root. It will ask you what key you want to use as compose-key/multi-key. On 19.02.2012 16:28, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > Dear All > > I have expunged KDE from my computer and am using xdm a