On Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at 2:05:55 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Larry Hudson : > > It sounds like you are almost, but not quite, describing the Linux > > Compose key. > > I have used Linux since the 1990's but don't know anything about "the > Linux Compose key."
It used to be a real (aka hardware) key: See pics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key#Occurrence_on_keyboards > (On the other hand, I have always specified my preferred keyboard layout with > .Xmodmap.) If this is being given as advice its bad advice xmodmap is obsolete use xkb https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X_KeyBoard_extension#xmodmap [Does this make life easier?? Didnt say so :-) ] This particularly nasty bug: h ttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/998310 I believe I witnessed when I tried to use xmodmap -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list