Setting the compose key without KDE
Dear All
I have expunged KDE from my computer and am using xdm and fvwm as
display manager and window manager respectively.
Under KDE, I had a Compose key (Multi-key?) which enabled me to produce
characters with accents used in Esperanto. I no longer have KDE, so I
tried using the xkeycaps program to change a key to be a Multi-key.
Unfortunately, xkeycaps failed with a segmentation fault.
Does anybody know what is wrong with xkeycaps? What should I give to the
program xmodmap to enable might left window key as a key which will
enable me to key the special characters?
I have a file in my home directory which rejoices in the name of
.XCompose. Which X program uses such a file such that I can have the
specially accented characters. .XCompose contains
# UTF-8 (Unicode) compose sequence
# David.Monniaux@ens.fr
#
# Keys for Esperanto
<Multi_key> <asciicircum> <C> : "Ĉ" U0108 # LATIN CAPITAL
LETTER C WITH CIRCUMFLEX
<Multi_key> <asciicircum> <c> : "ĉ" U0109 # LATIN SMALL
LETTER C WITH CIRCUMFLEX
<Multi_key> <asciicircum> <G> : "Ĝ" U011C # LATIN CAPITAL
LETTER G WITH CIRCUMFLEX
<Multi_key> <asciicircum> <g> : "ĝ" U011D # LATIN SMALL
LETTER G WITH CIRCUMFLEX
<Multi_key> <asciicircum> <H> : "Ĥ" U0124 # LATIN CAPITAL
LETTER H WITH CIRCUMFLEX
<Multi_key> <asciicircum> <h> : "ĥ" U0125 # LATIN SMALL
LETTER H WITH CIRCUMFLEX
<Multi_key> <asciicircum> <J> : "Ĵ" U0134 # LATIN CAPITAL
LETTER J WITH CIRCUMFLEX
<Multi_key> <asciicircum> <j> : "ĵ" U0135 # LATIN SMALL
LETTER J WITH CIRCUMFLEX
<Multi_key> <asciicircum> <S> : "Ŝ" U015C # LATIN CAPITAL
LETTER S WITH CIRCUMFLEX
<Multi_key> <asciicircum> <s> : "ŝ" U015D # LATIN SMALL
LETTER S WITH CIRCUMFLEX
<Multi_key> <U> <U> : "Ŭ" U016C # LATIN CAPITAL
LETTER U WITH BREVE
<Multi_key> <U> <u> : "ŭ" U016D # LATIN SMALL
LETTER U WITH BREVE
<Multi_key> <u> <u> : "ŭ" U016D # LATIN SMALL
LETTER U WITH BREVE
My Newsgroup composer has autofilled such that the comments are wrapped
onto the following line, but you can see what is supposed to happen.
Any help will be appreciated.
Regards
--
Sian Mountbatten
Algol 68 specialist
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