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Compose key on console?
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| I can set a compose key in X without any trouble, but bugger me with a
rusty iron spike if I know how to do it in the ordinary ttyX console.
Hours of Googling and reading of manpages and HOWTOs are no help. How
the F-ing F do I type accented characters? What weird combination of
keys is the default? And why isn't this a FAQ yet?
locale: en-GB
charset: iso-latin-15
Sarge installed with rc3 installer
PJR :-)
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| Bill Marcum 2005-04-07, 2:46 am |
| On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 02:03:30 +0100, PJR
<pjr@NOSPAMinsurgent.org> wrote:
> I can set a compose key in X without any trouble, but bugger me with a
> rusty iron spike if I know how to do it in the ordinary ttyX console.
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> Hours of Googling and reading of manpages and HOWTOs are no help. How
> the F-ing F do I type accented characters? What weird combination of
> keys is the default? And why isn't this a FAQ yet?
>
Don't know which manpages you looked at, but did you try "loadkeys" or
"keymaps"?
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| Robert Tucker 2005-04-07, 7:46 am |
| PJR wrote:
>I can set a compose key in X without any trouble .... if I know how to do it in the ordinary ttyX console.
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>locale: en-GB
>charset: iso-latin-15
>Sarge installed with rc3 installer
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How about :
´ *AltGr* and ; together
` *AltGr* and # together
^ *AltGr* and ' together
ç * AltGr* and + together
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| Robert Tucker 2005-04-07, 7:46 am |
| PJR wrote:
>I can set a compose key in X without any trouble .... if I know how to do it in the ordinary ttyX console.
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>locale: en-GB
>charset: iso-latin-15
>Sarge installed with rc3 installer
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How about :
´ AltGr and ; together
` AltGr and # together
^ AltGr and ' together
Ë› AltGr and + together
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| On Thursday 07 April 2005, Bill Marcum wrote in alt.os.linux.debian:
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 02:03:30 +0100, PJR
> <pjr@NOSPAMinsurgent.org> wrote:
> Don't know which manpages you looked at, but did you try "loadkeys" or
> "keymaps"?
Thank you.
man loadkeys has the solution.
$ loadkeys -d
and then CTRL+. works.
For some reason, the default keymap in
/usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/defkeymap.kmap.gz wasn't loading by
default.
PJR :-)
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| On Thursday 07 April 2005, Robert Tucker wrote in alt.os.linux.debian:
> PJR wrote:
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> How about :
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> ´ *AltGr* and ; together
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> ` *AltGr* and # together
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> ^ *AltGr* and ' together
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> ç * AltGr* and + together
Thanks. AltGr doesn't work for me, but CTRL+. does after running
"loadkeys -d". It should now be trivial to modify the keymap to use
the menu key as I do in X.
PJR :-)
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