On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 01:03 -0400, linuxmaillists@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > The X server does keyboard mapping of keys and you can > > use X to map keys. If you have an international > > keyboard set up then X ships with compose functionality > > which for the subset of symbols it does is usually > > easier to learn. > > > > Basically hit alt (left alt to US folks) and shift > > together, then let go of both, now type two keys in > > sequence that compose the resulting symbol. > > > > Where is the file that this would be done in so this > > would work? > > You can use the keyboard preferences GUI, and play with > the layout options to set which key is the compose key. > Alt + Shift never worked for me, so I used the > (otherwise) useless right-Windows key. My preferences > seem to be set, by it, in this file: > > /home/tim/.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd/% >gconf.xml > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <gconf> > <entry name="options" mtime="1173340595" > type="list" ltype="string"> <li type="string"> > <stringvalue>Compose key > compose:rwin</stringvalue> </li> > </entry> > </gconf> Does any one know where/what the file I need would be on a KDE system? -- If the word following begins with a vowel, the word you want is... to read the rest of this, go here http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/a.html
