Re: SCIM, anthy, and French
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 14:42, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
<snip>
> All I really want is for circumflex,
> apostrophe, backward apostrophe, quote, and perhaps comma to turn into
> dead keys so I can put accents on letters.
>
> Any other ideas?
I think what you really need is one of the US international keyboard layouts
or possibly just a compose key. IMs are mostly for complicated stuff, like CJK
and some southeast Asian languages
in /etc/default/keyboard
XKBMODEL="pc104"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT="intl"
or
XKBVARIANT="alt-intl"
or
XKBVARIANT="altgr-intl"
intl mostly gives you extra characters that you can type with "altgr"
(right alt),
e.g. <altgr><q> to get ä, <altgr><a> to get á
I haven't used alt-intl or altgr-intl myself, but I think it goes like this:
alt-intl is deadkey oriented, meaning you type things like <doublequote><a>
to get ä. To get just " you would type <doublequote><space><space>
"altgr-intl" I believe gets you dead keys that are triggered only when you
press the <altgr> and the would-be deadkey. This is somewhat(?) similar to
using XKBOPTIONS="compose:altgr" without a layout variant.
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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