Comments on: Compose key magic

By: Entrada de acentos y japonés en Emacs/GTK+/KDE en Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) « XMLEye

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:00:23 +0000

[...] Con esta tecla se pueden escribir caracteres “raros” y cadenas completas (véase esta página) mucho más fácilmente. Por ejemplo, § (el símbolo de sección) es pulsar y soltar la tecla [...]

By: How-To: How enable “compose” key in Ubuntu 9.10 (to type special characters) « mundane idiosyncrasies

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:09:25 +0000

[...] You can find the list of possible key combinations here, also from this blog. [...]

By: How-To: How enable “compose” key in Ubuntu 9.10 « mundane idiosyncrasies

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:03:42 +0000

[...] You can find the list of possible key combinations here, also from this blog. [...]

By: Quality Obsession » Blog Archive » How to insert Special Characters in Linux

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:26:10 +0000

[...] Read more about how to use compose here Ubuntu blog.cyberborean.org [...]

By: US-Intl layout, problem with one letter - openSUSE Forums

US-Intl layout, problem with one letter - openSUSE Forums — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:24:55 +0000

[...] Re: US-Intl layout, problem with one letter What I do for diacritics is enable the Compose key so that I have the standard compose sequences that Xorg knows about. In YaST > Hardware > Keyboard find the Menu is Compose checkbox and turn it on. Menu is the normally useless key next to the Windows key. Or use the Windows key for Compose. (And for good measure, if you hate the Caps Lock key like I do, turn on Caps Lock is additional Ctrl.) Now you can enter diacritics with 3 key sequences: Euro sign ? is Compose = C c cedilla ç is Compose , c and so forth. Here are all the supported Compose sequences: Compose key magic « Cyberborean Chronicles [...]

By: daniel

daniel — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:10:43 +0000

Very good work!

There is a solution for the GTK issue. Take a look at

http://hdante.blogspot.com/2007/05/kiel-oni-skribas-typing-esperanto.html

As I wrote in my comment there, you can write to /etc/X11/Xsession.d/00×11-common_set-gtk-im instead of /etc/environment, so you only have to restart X instead the whole system.

By: up, up, up and away » Blog Archive » Compose/AllChars

up, up, up and away » Blog Archive » Compose/AllChars — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:41:57 +0000

[...] if you are using *nix you have the possibility to use Compose key to write special symbols [...]

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:06:50 +0000

Yeah, custom sequencies do not work in GTK apps. I don’t use a lot of them (only Firefox, etc) so noticed it after writing this post. It’s very well may be because of input method settings, thanks! I would have to learn more about GTK input stuff.

Strangely, they work in OOffice. Does it mean it uses its own input functions, independent from GTK?

By: DD

DD — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:07:19 +0000

Are you able to perform customisations in ~/.XCompose without setting GTK’s input method to “xim” (i.e. export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim)?

I tried this, looked around, etc… and it doesn’t seem to work out.

By: jetxee

jetxee — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:44:23 +0000

Great! I looked for a way to easily define new Compose sequences on per-user basis. This is the solution! Thanks!

I used to rebuild latin-plus GTK Input method extension before to implement my own compose sequences. ~/.XCompose sounds much easier.