dead keys on XFree 3.2

dead keys on XFree 3.2

Post by Roberto Alsi » Mon, 24 Feb 1997 04:00:00



I am a spanish speaker that has a US keyboard.
In windows, there is a way to set the keyboard to US-international, which
makes the ' a "dead key", so that if you type 'a you get "a with a' on top".

What would be the way to achieve the same results on X?
I have tried mapping the Right Alt key to Compose, using the xkb
extensions, but xev still reports it's Alt-R. I'm really lost here,

Thanks for any help.

PS: Getting a spanish keyboard would suck, because they have \ / and | in
very odd multi-key places, most symbols in different places and I'm a touch
typist.

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