How does this work in real life? My PopOS (based on Ubuntu, based on Gnome) has
this exact mechanism, and the Compose key is set to the left Alt key. The
Settings page even gives this handy bit of help: "compose key followed by C and
0 will enter ©". But when I bring up a terminal and hit those
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Rich Shepard wrote:
Found the solution. In ~/.Xmodmap I added the line
keycode 133 = Multi_key
It ãlso works in a virtual terminal. :-)
Rich
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Rich Shepard wrote:
My keyboard doesn't have a deadkey (at least, not one so identified). How
do I enter, for example, a tilde a?
Found the solution. In ~./.Xmodmap I added the line
keycode 133 = Multi_key
Now when I press the windoze flag key and follow it with ~a
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Jeffrey Borcean wrote:
GNOME has had built-in support for mapping a key to be either AltGr or
Compose since at least the 2.X days. I imagine most other DEs do as
well.
Settings > Keyboard > Special Character Entry
Jeffrey,
I didn't think to look at the Xfce4 keyboard setti
Setting a "compose" key:
§ MATE
From System -> Preferences -> Hardware -> Keyboard, Layouts -> Options,
put Compose where you want it. I've got it on right-Alt.
§ GNOME
Settings > Keyboard > Compose Key
Activate and select key to use.
Full list of predefined compose keys can be found here:
/
GNOME has had built-in support for mapping a key to be either AltGr or
Compose since at least the 2.X days. I imagine most other DEs do as
well.
Settings > Keyboard > Special Character Entry
I use this to set the Print Screen key on my ThinkPad (two keys right
of spacebar) to be a compose key.
My keyboard doesn't have a deadkey (at least, not one so identified). How do
I enter, for example, a tilde a?
TIA,
Rich
