On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 19:11, Marc Williams wrote: > One of the things I miss most from my Windows days was how drop dead > easy it was to type Extended ASCII characters. Alt + code. That's > all. Worked from any text entry window. If I wanted an enye (n with a > tilde diacritical - I would demonstrate but I have no idea how from my > Evolution window), type <alt>164. Done. Charts of Extended ASCII > characters can be found in hundreds of places on the web. I always had > one at the ready. > > If there is a likewise easy way in Linux, I would like to be > enlightened. > > > On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 17:21, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 17:13, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > > On the commandlin, enter: gkb_xmmap <locale> > > > > > > For example, to change to a spanish keyboard mapping, type: > > > > > > gkb_xmmap es > > > > Or even better, you can assign a key to be the Compose key. This has > > the advantage of not changing the layout of the keyboard at all. For > > example: > > > > xmodmap -e "remove mod1 = Meta_R" -e "keysym Meta_R = Multi_key" > > > > will set up the right Alt key to be Compose. If e.g. you want to type > > "è", you type "RightAlt ` e". Or if you want to type "ñ" you type > > "RightAlt ~ n". > > > > I think there is a way to do this from XF86Config too, but I don't know > > how that works. > >
Don't forget, there are the 'Character Picker' and 'GKB Switcher' applets for the gnome panel. -- Stephen _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
