On Thursday 12 June 2003 16:05, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 at 14:23, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
On Thursday 12 June 2003 09:02 am, Anders Johansson wrote:
ð = alt-gr + d þ = alt-gr + t ó = ' (dead key) + o á = ' (dead key) + a æ = alt-gr + ä on a swedish keyboard, a separate key on a danish
Unfortunately that isn't working for me. There used to be 'compose' options with the keyboad types, or something along those lines. They seem to have vanished. This is truly frustrating.
The Compose key works fine under 8.2 here. There are the usual explanations and examples in ~/.Xmodmap. The only difference with previous versions of SuSE is that nothing has been uncommented in ~/.Xmodmap beforehand.
The best way to set the Compose key is by specifying the key code. I chose the 'Pause' key as the Compose key. With the xev command I find that it's key code is 110. So in ~/.Xmodmap I have entered:
I don't have a ~/.Xmodemap. I guess I can try and create one, but that is something I have always wanted to avoid because it always breaks something that I'm unaware of. Then I spend days trying to hunt down the source of the problem when I discover it a month later. I just recreated my home directory and let the setup create everything for me. Perhaps I'll be able to get it working now that all the old clutter is out of the way.
keycode 110 = Multi_key
Examples: ð = Compose key followed by -d or d- þ = Compose key followed by th
Now how to find the key pairs for a certain character? My character encoding is ISO 8859-15. In man iso-8859-15 I find that the octal code for ð is 360. In /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-15/Compose I find that the keys for \360 are d and -.
S.H.
BTW: Just celebrating the fact that after my use of Linux rose from 50% to 99% in three and a half years, the switch is now complete. Whoopee! Well maybe I should note that I'm not a gamer, and there are no kids around...
I pretty much remain exclusively booted into Linux. But there are times when things work better under XP. That's life. Steven