Hi, In case other people have need for a solution. Apologies that this turned out to be off-topic for this list as it is not KDE related... Am Dienstag, 14. September 2004 14:13 schrieb Stephan Matthiesen: > is it possible to assign a simple key combination to the letter ñ (ntilde), > which I need a lot when writing about El Niño.... > > I'm using KDE 3.3. (KDE-Redhat), keyboard PC105(intl), keyboard layout > German (nodeadkeys), Fedora 2, on a Toshiba Laptop. It works when I modifiy the file /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/latin Change the line key <AB06> { [ n, N ] }; to key <AB06> { [ n, N, ntilde, Ntilde ] }; After a restart I get the ñ with AltGr-n. Some useful hints and a good description for making a new keyboard layout is found here http://desktops.linux.com/desktops/04/06/03/1558258.shtml?tid=26&tid=40&tid=14 It seems to me that the above modification might be generally useful, and if I can find out where to submit wishes I would submit it... Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be good documentation on xkb. In particular I wonder if it is possible to set these keysymbols in some user configuration file, rather than having to modify the distributed keyboard layouts... > Kshortcut (in the control centre) doesn't seem to work at all. Trying to > define something like Alt-Ctrl-N -> ñ simply doesn't do anything. But then > I even the predefined example "Type Hello" doesn't work when I activate it > - is there a trick? No solution yet. Is this supposed to work? > Doing > xmodmap -e 'keycode 57=n N ntilde Ntilde' > does not work either. However I can set: > xmodmap -e 'keycode 57=ntilde Ntilde' > but then of course I loose the normal 'n'. It seems that xmodmap is obsolete, and changes with xmodmap might or might not work. This is confusing as a google search always returns plenty of xmodmap suggestions, but little (understandable) about xkb. Cheers Stephan ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.