On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 12:44:07PM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: > >I need some test reports for this on both US and non-US (aka silly) > >keyboards please. > > > Silly?? Just try typing n-tilde and accents using all copy and paste! > I've done that horror now and then. > Ouch! :)
Put something like setxkbmap -option compose:ralt into your .xsession and you can use all kind of accented characters and umlauts with your shiny new compose key (using ralt-"-a, ralt-s-s, ralt-n-~ etc.). Ciao, Kili