newbie: dapper: skim and latin characters

[Christian Fröbel]

Hello,

I wrote:
> Now the question is where to place this command as I do not want to edit
> the global /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Any ideas? Or is there an
> administrative tool for kubuntu or KDE that does the trick?

I can answer myself here. Go to "System Settings"->"Regional & Accessibility". 
If you select U.S. English keyboard layout in the "active layouts" table on 
the right, below you have the possibility to specify the variant you'd like 
to use. There you can select alt-intl. And in the "Xkb Options" tab, enable 
the options and select "Compose Key Position": "Right Win-key is Compose".

Of course you can select whatever you prefer, but this is the equivalent for 
the command I posted:

$ setxkbmap us -variant alt-intl -option compose:rwin

so long,
  Christian