Re: compose-character in X

[Dave Carrigan <dave@rudedog.org>]

Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> writes:

> Is there a way to get the ctrl-. compose character keystroke to work in
> X by default?  It works on console but not X...

I don't think that you can make ctrl-. the compose character, but you
can make other keys the compose character. I personally like assigning
it to the Windows key, since I don't use it for anything else. I use
this:

 xmodmap -e 'keycode 115 = Multi_key'

If your keyboard doesn't use keycode 115 for that keycode, run xev and
hit the key inside the xev window to see what keycode it does generate.

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