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Re: Fix for german keymaps in woody on the ibook2



On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 09:26, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> 
> Siggi Langauf writes:
> 
> > Excuse my ignorance, but I've never used a Compose key, so what's it
> > good for?
> 
> > Uh, and how do you get umlauts there?
> 
> Hehe.  The Compose key is used for getting Umlaute, and all those
> other special characters from ISO-8859 as well.

Actually, for the umlauts I use this with xmodmap:

keycode 30 = u U udiaeresis Udiaeresis
keycode 32 = o O odiaeresis Odiaeresis
keycode 38 = a A adiaeresis Adiaeresis

so I get them by pressing Mode_switch and the vowel.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast



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