On Sunday 17 September 2006 18:09, oldman wrote: > -----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 I don't get that on my KDE GB keyboard layout. I get "ă". But, Right alt + the right square bracket key gives me a dead key for the "~", then releasing the keys and pressing "a", gives me "ã". Out of interest, which language uses a "ã"? I've seen the "ñ" in spanish. Nigel. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
