-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 17 September 2006 13:57, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> It's been more than a year since I did this and I >> don't recall where the keysyms came from but I did >> find a list that seems to work in part. >> >> For instance: >> >> /usr/bin/xmodmap -e 'keycode 115=oslash' >> >> produces Ø or ø with the left hand Windows >> key shifted/unshifted. Not sure about your "A" with >> the bar? >> >> See: http://linux.kiefner.de/de-dvorak.xmodmap >> >> > Ah - so 'keysyms' is the word I need to search on? OK - there's a very good > list at http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.3/TkCmd/keysyms.htm and it seems that the > character that I used as an example in my request for info is > > Atilde 195 0x00c3 > > There's also some useful reading at http://wiki.x.org/wiki/KeySyms > > Thanks for pointing me in the right direction > > Anne > Anne I'm rather new at this accenting characters in linux, but I find that with right-Alt set as my composing key, selecting the RAlt-shift-Tilde and releasing them then typing the character I want accented (A in your case) works just fine, as does substituting double-quote for the Tilde to produce umlaut (Ö) or comma to get a cedilia ç. there are many others you can have fun experimenting! Scott -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFDXNH5mBKdb7VQEcRArdWAJ4kX2xByH0SRlwGWQrBBEVBn7Q9oQCgjdUz wWvX8e4fRYQNLJwOmBTuWnY= =wvMz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
