--- On Wed, 4/27/11, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: where do I put a command to setup keyboard shortcuts for Gnome 3 > To: "fedora-test-list" <test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 7:29 PM > Dear folks, > > I am running Gnome 3 and want to setup a special keyboard > mapping to be able to get special keys/shortcuts see http://sob.apotheon.org/?p=814 for special character > discussion. > > ñ For students/parents with last names Peña, or Treviño > as examples, also for accents like José > > The command > > setxkbmap -option compose:ralt > > does the job and instead of placing it in > /etc/rc.d/rc.local or /etc/rc.local or other older > solution. If I need to put in ~/.bashrc, ~/.xinitrc > will it start and allow me to input the special > characters? > > I have figured it out for (FreeBSD and Slackware[XFCE > desktop]) using startx and automatic login using > tricks. Have not figured it out for Fedora with > gnome-shell or Gnome 3 :( > > Where will it work? (~/.xinitrc), (~/.bashrc), > (~/.config/autostart), using regular startup(level 5 > with systemd)? > > Thanks to the other suggestions I got gkrellm to run at > startup using gkrellm.desktop in ~/.config/autostart/, do I > need something similar. I want to have this available > so my students can compose the special characters and I > don't have to type the command everytime :( > > This way they can type their correspondance to their > spanish professors at the community college. They want > to use alt+164, but I got advice to use the compose key + ~ > => ñ > > Thanks in Advance, > > Antonio > -- I have tried creating a file in userdirectory ~/.xinitrc with the command, but it does not work. Any suggestions out there? Works with KDE/XFCE/ other desktops out there? a universal solution not necessarily for Gnome 3? Thanks, Antonio -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
