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Re: Unicode Character key-in problem



David Jardine <david@jardine.de> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 02:51:29PM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote:
>> David Jardine <david@jardine.de> writes:
>> 
>> > On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:01:11AM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> Sorry, I was referring to the link to compose keys.  I haven't figured
>> >> out how to use hex input for Linux (or FreeBSD).
>> >
>> > AltGr and the keypad.  For a-f work round the outside of the keypad from
>> > top left to bottom right.
>> 
>> That doesn't work either, but maybe because I am working under KDE.  I
>> don't know what AltGr is supposed to be, but I assigned a key to what is
>> called 3rd level chooser, but that doesn't do anything.  Either I
>> guessed wrong or there is some other configuration necessary.
>  
> No, sorry, even if you guessed right (right alt key???) it wouldn't have 
> worked in X, let alone KDE.  Unless someone knows how to configure it to 
> do just that...

I found enough information in the wikipedia article about AltGr to
confirm that I do have it working right, but it still doesn't work
for numeric keypad input.  The compose characters handle anything I
need, so it doesn't matter to me.

-- 
Carl Johnson		carlj@peak.org


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