Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 06:16:52 -0700
Kelly Clowers <kelly.clowers@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 00:43, John Jason Jordan <johnxj@comcast.net> wrote:
...

> > How did you get a US keyboard with an AltGr key?
> 
> It is *really* hard to find a US keyboard with it actually printed on the
> key, but any right-alt (or any other key, really) can be a altgr if you

My Acer Aspire 3690 (purchased from Tiger) does have AltGR printed on
the right alt key.

> use something like this:
> XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch"
> 
> or you can get compose with either:
> XKBOPTIONS="compose:ralt"
> 
> or:
> XKBLAYOUT="us"
> XKBVARIANT="intl"
> 
> (or you can use both with something like:
> XKBOPTIONS="compose:ralt, lv3:rwin_switch")
> 
> 
> If you like dead keys:
> XKBLAYOUT="us"
> XKBVARIANT="alt-intl"
> 
> In current systems, these go in /etc/default/keyboard
> Older systems use xorg.conf.

I don't have any of those, and indeed, both my alts are just plain alts.

Celejar
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