On Tuesday 29 August 2017 14:19:06 Uwe Brauer wrote: > > On Monday 28 August 2017 22:25:51 Uwe Brauer wrote: > > > > ok, i think i solved your problem. > > keyboard layout > xkb options > > > > pick a "compose key position" that suites you > > for example left winkey, then.... > > win+"+a = ä > > I tried out xev in order to see whats up: when I pressed the key in > question, It's shift+ the key two keys to the right of L > having us/international activated I obtained > > KeyPress event, serial 39, synthetic, NO, window 0x5a0001 > state 0x2001, keycode 0 (keysym 0xa8, diarersis), same_screen Yes > XMBLookupstring gives 2 bytel (c2 a8) "¨" > > Is this helpful? > > BTW I obtain the same result for US alt-intl > it should have been saying: dead_diaeresis try "rm -R ~/.xinput.d" you can try asking in the ubuntu forum about dead keys and compose keys not working..... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting