Re: compose / Multi_key

[Matthijs Melchior <mmelchior@xs4all.nl>]

Branden Robinson wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 07:10:25PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
>
> > With the new debconf questions, I set up the following settings:
> >
> > $ grep -i xkb /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
> >        Option          "XkbRules"      "xfree86"
> >        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc104"
> >        Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
> >        Option          "XkbVariant"    "compose"
> >
> > It does not seem to work as I want it to: I want a compose key to be 
> > able to type non-english characters (vowels with ' and ` accents, ^, ", 
> > etc.) - in older X packages, 104 key US keyboard automatically made the 
> > irght "windows key" the compose key. How do I get this functionality 
> > back?
>
> You can read the /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/us file to get a list of available
> variants.
>
> In your case, I'd suggest:
>         Option          "XkbVariant"    "pc104compose"
>
> However, in my own tests this doesn't appear to be working.  Hrm.
This works for me....:

Section "InputDevice"
       Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
       Driver          "keyboard"
       Option          "XkbRules"      "xfree86"
       Option          "XkbModel"      "pc104"
       Option          "XkbLayout"     "intl"
EndSection



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