Re: Gnome 3.21: how to define compose key?

2016-09-14 Thread David Wright
On Tue 13 Sep 2016 at 19:46:03 (-0400), Doug wrote: > On 09/13/2016 04:40 PM, David Wright wrote: > >On Tue 13 Sep 2016 at 15:12:17 (-0400), Doug wrote: > >>On 09/13/2016 01:07 AM, david...@freevolt.org wrote: > >>>On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, Doug wrote: > >>> > On 09/11/2016 11:47 PM, david...@freevo

Re: Gnome 3.21: how to define compose key?

2016-09-13 Thread Neal P. Murphy
On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 19:46:03 -0400 Doug wrote: > On 09/13/2016 04:40 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 13 Sep 2016 at 15:12:17 (-0400), Doug wrote: > >> On 09/13/2016 01:07 AM, david...@freevolt.org wrote: > >>> On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, Doug wrote: > >>> > On 09/11/2016 11:47 PM, david...@freev

Re: Gnome 3.21: how to define compose key?

2016-09-13 Thread Doug
On 09/13/2016 04:40 PM, David Wright wrote: On Tue 13 Sep 2016 at 15:12:17 (-0400), Doug wrote: On 09/13/2016 01:07 AM, david...@freevolt.org wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, Doug wrote: On 09/11/2016 11:47 PM, david...@freevolt.org wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, david...@freevolt.org wrote: And i

Re: Gnome 3.21: how to define compose key?

2016-09-13 Thread Siard
David Wright wrote: > Oh good, someone who uses these! Can you help me with how you use the > last of these characters: > > ⅓ ⅔ ⅕ ⅖ ⅗ ⅘ ⅙ ⅚ ⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞ ⅟ > > It doesn't say it's a combining character and I can't find any > denominators anyway to go with it. Use the subscripts of digits. E.g. ⅟ foll

Re: Gnome 3.21: how to define compose key?

2016-09-13 Thread davidson
On Tue, 13 Sep 2016, Doug wrote: On 09/13/2016 01:07 AM, david...@freevolt.org wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, Doug wrote: And ½, ⅓, ⅜, ©, 75°, µF, 17¢, and others.) I see recognisable glyphs for five out of seven of those. My environment does not support the other two. So I know what they are n

Re: Gnome 3.21: how to define compose key?

2016-09-13 Thread David Wright
On Tue 13 Sep 2016 at 15:12:17 (-0400), Doug wrote: > On 09/13/2016 01:07 AM, david...@freevolt.org wrote: > >On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, Doug wrote: > > > >>On 09/11/2016 11:47 PM, david...@freevolt.org wrote: > >>>On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, david...@freevolt.org wrote: > >>> > And if I wanted that behavio

Re: Gnome 3.21: how to define compose key?

2016-09-13 Thread Doug
On 09/13/2016 01:07 AM, david...@freevolt.org wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, Doug wrote: On 09/11/2016 11:47 PM, david...@freevolt.org wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, david...@freevolt.org wrote: And if I wanted that behavior all the time, I would edit the file /etc/default/keyboard, adding compose

Re: Gnome 3.21: how to define compose key?

2016-09-13 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 12:04:53PM +0200, Siard wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > I haven't yet seen a complete table (nor have I yet bothered to find out > > how one configures that in X -- some day I'll do). > > Well, there is a complete listing

Re: Gnome 3.21: how to define compose key?

2016-09-13 Thread Siard
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > I haven't yet seen a complete table (nor have I yet bothered to find out > how one configures that in X -- some day I'll do). Well, there is a complete listing in /usr/share/X11/locale//Compose. You can add or edit your own combinations there. I should add that my en_GB

Re: Gnome 3.21: how to define compose key?

2016-09-13 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 05:07:28AM +, david...@freevolt.org wrote: > On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, Doug wrote: [...] > >And ½, ⅓, ⅜, ©, 75°, µF, 17¢, and others.) > > I see recognisable glyphs for five out of seven of those. My > environment does not sup

Re: Gnome 3.21: how to define compose key?

2016-09-12 Thread davidson
On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, Doug wrote: On 09/11/2016 11:47 PM, david...@freevolt.org wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, david...@freevolt.org wrote: And if I wanted that behavior all the time, I would edit the file /etc/default/keyboard, adding compose:rwin to the comma-separated list of pairs in XKBOPTIO

Re: Gnome 3.21: how to define compose key?

2016-09-12 Thread Doug
On 09/11/2016 11:47 PM, david...@freevolt.org wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, david...@freevolt.org wrote: And if I wanted that behavior all the time, I would edit the file /etc/default/keyboard, adding compose:rwin to the comma-separated list of pairs in XKBOPTIONS. Of course, editing that file

Re: Gnome 3.21: how to define compose key?

2016-09-11 Thread davidson
On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, david...@freevolt.org wrote: And if I wanted that behavior all the time, I would edit the file /etc/default/keyboard, adding compose:rwin to the comma-separated list of pairs in XKBOPTIONS. Of course, editing that file will change the default system-wide, for everybody. Ev

Re: Gnome 3.21: how to define compose key?

2016-09-11 Thread davidson
On Sun, 11 Sep 2016, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: I want to use my right super key (right win) as my compose key to be able to type accented letters. I don't use gnome, but I expect $ setxkbmap -option "compose:rwin" would do what you want. And if I wanted that behavior all the time, I would e

Gnome 3.21: how to define compose key?

2016-09-10 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, I want to use my right super key (right win) as my compose key to be able to type accented letters.  I have read the online manual regarding the compose key but that does not work: there is no (disabled) "Compose Key" in "Activities- >Keyboard->Typing". (The manual actually say "Activities->K