Re: Compose key not working
On: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 09:56:12 +0200 (SAST) Johann Spies writes:
>
> I am sorry to bother the list about this. My compose key is not
> working after upgrading to Debian 2.0. I do not know how to define
> it. All the documentation I have read simply supposes there is a
> compose key and that Linux's default is Control-period.
>
> I had no problems using it under Debian 1.3.1 but now ...
>
> Under X I managed to restore compose by running xkeycaps every time
> I start up X. But I do a lot of work on a normal tty.
>
> How do I define a compose key?
Look into your /etc/kbd/default.map.gz file. I have the following
line:
keycode 127 = Compose
which puts the Compose function on the right popup key of a win95
keyboard. At the end of the file there are some compose definitions
too.
BTW: For Ctrl-. the entry probably similiar like this:
keycode 52 = period colon
alt keycode 52 = Meta_period
control keycode 52 = Compose
shift alt keycode 52 = Meta_colon
The first line in my file is
keymaps 0-2,4-6,8,9,10,12
I changed it to get key combinations like Meta-Shift-: (colon is shift
period on a german keyboard) to work in Emacs.
Torsten
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