Anthony Bentley wrote: > On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 08:08:40PM +0100, Matthias Kilian wrote: >>> 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 > Was just about to suggest this. An excellent feature no matter what > keyboard you have.
Except for me who is altering between se and us layouts. Swedish keyboards use AltGr for e.g. AltGr+2 => '@'. Now, personally, the only reason for that is just what is solved above. Now if it was not for the rest of my family... :) That said, i tried to make Caps_Lock be my compose key but to no avail. $ xmodmap -e 'clear Lock' # get rid of caps lock annoyance $ setxkbmap -option compose:caps # damn it, caps lock is back... Hints highly appreciated. For example; where are the -option's documented? /Alexander
