Custom .XCompose

[Bob]

** Reply to message from Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> on Sun, 12 Nov 2017
18:06:40 +1100

> On Sat, 2017-11-11 at 22:39 -0800, Bob wrote:
> > It is a bit of a pain to use on a laptop that does not have a
> > separate numeric keypad.  You need to turn on NumLock.
> > [...]
> > But as I mentioned in anather post it does not seem to
> > work using Ubuntu.
> 
> I use German a fair bit and have these notes on making some German
> special characters:
> 
> 1: Use the "Settings" tool, select "Text Entry" then "Keyboard options"
> (it's a link at bottom right).
> 
> 2: Click "Disabled" on the "Compose key" line. A list of possible
> compose keys will drop down. Choose e.g. "Right Alt" - most of the
> others are taken by something else. Then close the "Settings" applet.
> 
> 3: To enter an Umlaut, press the compose key (that you chose in step
> 2), then double-quote, then the unmodified letter. For example, tap, in
> order rightAlt, double-quote, "a" to get "ä" (Umlaut-a). For the
> capitalised version, just type the capital letter instead.
> 
> 4: For a sharp-S, use compose, s, "s" or compose, S, "S".

This and other directions that I have found online do not work since the GUI
changed with 17.10.

I will have to search occasionally to see if anyone updates the directions on
how to turn on the compose key.


> I only use Umlauts and sharp-S, but this link looks very useful for a
> bunch of other special characters in various other languages as well.
> And it definitely works at least for "å" and "Å" :-)
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key#Common_compose_combinations
> 
> I've found that typing special characters this way becomes quite fast
> with very little practice.
> Regards, K.

-- 
Robert Blair


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