Linux Compose Key

Re:Linux Compose Key by bgovern on Thursday November 26, 2009 @02:27PM (#963012)

I've been using the auto correct functionality since Word 2.0 to do the same thing. Granted, it doesn't work well when you need to type the character in a post on a message board, but 95% of my need is in Word Processing Programs and Spread Sheets. So, 5 minutes of effort turns (c) to © and (s) to § forever.

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Re:Linux Compose Key by GeoJawDguJin on Thursday November 26, 2009 @04:35PM (#963122)

These days, the Cocoa text system on Macs is so ridiculously feature-complete that you can do this in web browsers and chat programs as well, along with “smart quotes” and automatic spelling correction.

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Re:Linux Compose Key by pbhjpbhj on Thursday November 26, 2009 @05:10PM (#963169)

The Ubuntu page shows that fourth level characters are available as standard for © (AltGr+Shift+C) and § (AltGr+Shift+s.

When I was on windows I used the Alt+NumPad unicode method.

Anyone know how to set the compose key from standard Kubuntu 9.10?

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Re:Linux Compose Key by alan_p on Friday November 27, 2009 @07:13AM (#963781)

Having an AltGr (third-level chooser) key on my native language keyboard, I was quite surprised to see Ubuntu (Linux in general? It's all in xkb's symbols layout anyway) have not only third level glyphs on way more keys than I was used to from Windows (AltGr+Q = @, AltGr+E = €, etc) but also fourth level glyphs (AltGr+Shift+...). Sadly a lot of them are pretty useless (e.g. the many "logical negation" keys -- I guess they used them in place of None).

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