Okay, I am still hope that this could be done with a plain configuration, so I asked a question at unix.stackexchange
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/179764/force-english-layout-for-the-compose-key-pressed If anybody knows an answer, please write it here or there. 2015-01-03 14:59 GMT+03:00 Hi-Angel <hiangel...@gmail.com>: >>> E.g. after I am in cyryllic layout pressed «Compose + Б + Б», it would >>> produced the "«" sign because in English layout the «Б» key is in the >>> place of the «<» key. Any ideas are welcome. >> >>When you are using the compose mechanism from Xlib, you can add your own >>compose sequences into your ~/.XCompose file. For example, >> >> <Multi_key> <Cyrillic_BE> <Cyrillic_BE> : "«" guillemotleft >> >>should do the trick. > > No, no, that's the workaround that I'd wanted to escape. At least for > two reasons: > ● It is very confusing. E.g. the «.» symbol in both layouts is in a > different places, so every time i need to type a symbol, I'd needed to > stop and think for a moment: in which layout am I now? > ● The original compose file have ≈6000 lines, plus I am using these > great https://github.com/kragen/xcompose/blob/master/dotXCompose > combinations. Even if I am do not use every symbol, I would be very > hurt to add a symbol to my layout every time I needed one and restart > X server. I tried before to write a script in CL to localize a compose > file, that was the time I found that the «keysym»s and UTF names that > I can get in CL is differ 😄 _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
