Re: Totally Off-Topic (it's that Linux newbie again)

From: Howard J. Rogers <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:29:34 +1100
Message-ID: <pan.2003.02.09.23.29.33.685959@yahoo.com.au>

On Sun, 09 Feb 2003 23:23:46 +0100, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
>
> Assuming you are using X11, you use the "Compose" key. Unfortunately the
> PC keyboard doesn't have any key actually labeled "compose", so which
> key that is is somewhat arbitrary. On my (German) keyboard both
> <Shift-AltGr> and <RightWindows> work as compose. The next two
> characters after compose will be combined, so to type "Götterdämmerung",
> wou would type:
>
> G <compose> " o t t e r d <compose> " a m m e r u n g
>
> I am not aware of a complete list of valid combinations, though.
>

Regretfully, this isn't working for me:

G"otter

...stays G"otter whatever I do, and however many key combinations I try. I've tried it in gedit, OpenOffice, file renaming via Nautilus... the works.

Thanks for the suggestion though. I get the feeling this isn't going to be easy.

Regards
HJR Received on Sun Feb 09 2003 - 17:29:34 CST