Re: Setting the compose key without KDE
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Hi,
I'm not sure which programs read it, but compose key set with that way
works in XFCE4. It doesn't seem to work in GNOME (3) for me, I don't
know why.
Left logo is my compose too and it and ^ and c gives me Ĉ. This might
be because of my keyboard configuration ☺.
On 19.02.2012 19:42, Sian Mountbatten wrote:
> Mika Suomalainen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Try running
>>> dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
>> as root. It will ask you what key you want to use as
>> compose-key/multi-key.
>
> Indeed it does, and I asked for the Left-Logo key. In the file
> /etc/default/keyboard I notice that the environment string
> XKBOPTIONS is set to
> "lv3:ralt_switch,compose:lwin,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" so obviously
> the configuration has done something. But what programs read that
> file? I tried pressing the left windows key, holding it down and
> pressing ^ and then c, but I still don't get the accented
> character. So what am I doing wrong? -- Sian Mountbatten
>
>
>> On 19.02.2012 16:28, Sian Mountbatten wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
> <snip>
>
>> - -- Mika Suomalainen
>>> Hotmail:
>>
>
>
- --
Mika Suomalainen
> Hotmail:
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