Sending back to the list... Tony Baldwin wrote at 2009-10-28 15:18 -0500: > green wrote: >> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote at 2009-10-28 08:49 -0500: >>> green wrote: >>>> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote at 2009-10-27 07:32 -0500: >>>>> No matter what I do I cannot get my deadkeys to work in openoffice. >>>>> Anybody have better luck? >>>>> éáñ like these... >>>> It works fine for me, on a mostly Lenny system, in a terminal, in >>>> openoffice, in iceweasel (soon to be replaced with uzbl)... >>>> >>>> I have the following line in ~/.xsession file: >>>> xmodmap ~/.xmodmaprc >>>> >>>> And in ~/.xmodmaprc (! is for comments as according to xmodmap(1)): >>>> ! Enable compose/deadkeys for special characters >>>> keycode 113 = Multi_key >>>> >>>> And I found that keycode (for my right alt key) using xev(1). >>> >>> So how do you enter a deadkey? >>> ralt+'+e? >> >> If I press the following keys individually in the order listed: >> RightAlt >> a >> ' >> >> then I get: >> á > > > I use US-Intl keyboard map. > á à ç ü ñ ¿ ¡ é ß ô etc. are all quite simple. > > do > # set xkbmap us intl > > then look at this: > http://dry.sailingissues.com/us-international-keyboard-layout.html > to learn how to use it.
That's interesting, but is there any obvious advantage over the deadkey method, rather than preference? I think I prefer the other, probably because I am familiar with it...
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