Maybe I'm missing something, but all you have to do, if you're using a US English keyboard and want to type special characters, is enable US English International with Dead Keys in the keyboard settings, then add the keyboard switcher applet to your panel. If you click on it, it goes to international mode. AltGr (the right alt) + n gets ñ, AltGr+a gets á, AltGr+e gets é, AltGr+s gets ß, AltGr+u gets ú...and if you want ü you hit shift+" before typing the u (to get a plain ", hit AltGr while you press it). <div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 4, 2008 6:52 PM, Joel Bryan Juliano <<a href="mailto:joelbryan.juliano@gmail.com">joelbryan.juliano@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Will there be a chance for compose key be assigned and enabled by default? Since Ubuntu include and support many languages, I think it will be very useful to enable this feature as well, to make it easily available. Example usage are ñ (enye) for Piñata, é in Beyoncé, Café, José, Pérez and Pokémon. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com </a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss</a> </blockquote> </div> -- Mackenzie Morgan Linux User #432169 ACM Member #3445683 <a href="http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com">http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com</a> <-my blog of Ubuntu stuff apt-get moo