On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 09:15:54PM +0100, James Wilkinson wrote:
> Mike Wright wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > There was a thread not too far back that explained how to type
> > characters not on a keyboard by using the <alt> key but for the life
> > of me I can not find it.
> > 
> > e.g. to type a Spanish i with an accent mark it would be <alt> apostrophe i.
> 

Here are the notes I wrote to myself about diacritical marks:

************
CTL-ALT-BS and the Compose key

I've created /usr/local/bin/killx:

********** START
setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us -option compose:ralt
********** END

This restores the traditional method of killing an X session
and also defines the right-ALT key as the Compose key for entering a
variety of non-ascii characters - the diacriticals listed in
/usr/share/X11/locale/iso8859-15/Compose   

List this script in Application | Preferences | SessionandStartup 
under ApplicationAutostart to ensure that it runs with startxfce4.
It can also be run manually.

-- 
        David A. De Graaf    DATIX, Inc.    Hendersonville, NC
        d...@datix.us         www.datix.us

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