Bug#345409: New upgrade breaks login as there is no multikey anymore
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 02:33:12PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Saturday 07 January 2006 13:56, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 10:25:18AM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> > Of course we could put ralt_switch_multikey back in Debian, but if your
> > keyboard has some spare keys, adding a compose: option would be much
> > better.
>
> It could well be that I misunderstand the comment about ralt, but...
>
> Please leave support for ralt for composing characters. It is essential
> for Dutch users who normally have a keyboard with US layout but need to
> be able to easily type accented characters like é è ë ó ç.
>
> IMO ralt is by far the cleanest way to do that.
>
> My current keyboard settings are (in Sarge KDE):
> setxkbmap -option -option grp:switch,compose:ralt
Hi Frans,
this option is still supported, and there is no reason to drop it.
The issue here is that historically Shift+AltGr was defined as a
compose key, but this caused trouble, see #270235 for instance.
Denis
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