Re: How to use dead keys

["Manon Metten" <manon.metten@gmail.com>]

On 4/11/07, Alok G. Singh <alephnull@airtelbroadband.in> wrote:

On 11 Apr 2007, steefvanduin@zonnet.nl wrote:

>> So basically, what I want is to press a dead key and than a vowel
>> to produce an accented char.  How do I achieve this?

You can do that with a 'Compose' key. Here [1] is a guide for
GNOME/GTK+. You can do the same thing with xmodmap as well. I suppose
KDE would have a similar option.

Footnotes:
[1]   http://process-of-elimination.net/wiki/Means_of_Composing_Accented_Characters_in_X_Window_System

Thanks Alok,

I'm gonna check this out, but at first glance it looks like no easy way to do.

Manon.