KDE how to find all special characters 1746

On Fri, 26 May 2006 18:13:19 +0100, Maurice Batey staggered into the Black Sun and said:

Maurice's directions won't do anything for you unless you've mapped ControlR to Multikey using an xmodmap command. I do this on KDE startup, in ~-.kde-Autostart-xmodmap.sh :

#!-bin-bashusr-bin-xmodmap -e 'keycode 109 = Multikey' # weird keycode for numlock on Thinkpadsusr-bin-xmodmap -e 'keycode 77 = NumLock'

...since right-Ctrl is keycode 109. Start xev from a konsole, press right-Ctrl, see what xev reports as the keysym that right-Ctrl generates.

Old distro, old KDE, weird keyboard layout. None of that should make a difference. The whole xmodmap thing has been around since the mid-1990s and it Just Works as long as you know how to hack it. Note that your LANG environment variable should be set to something other than "C" for Compose or Multikey to work properly. enGB should work all right.

There are probably a number of fancy GUI things for dealing with entering "special characters", but those change frequently and almost certainly have more bugs than the xmodmap approach.

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