Chad Walstrom writes: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 09:17:55AM -0500, rpgoldman at real-time.com wrote: > > Does anyone have any suggestions about how to find and use the compose > > key? > > WTF is a compose key? Some shortcut to open your favorite editor??? > Check your window manager keybindings. The compose key is the key that lets you build ISO characters (French letters? :->) like e with various accents. Now I see why the German guy on the HOWTO list grumbles about American Culture [sic] Imperialism! I don't think this is a matter for the window mangler, is it? I found the following in a .xkm file: keycode 99 = Compose keycode 100 = AltGr alt keycode 100 = Compose ...but it doesn't seem to work as advertised. See dumpkeys, for example to see what it should do: compose ',' 'i' to 'ç' Keycode 99 does seem to be mapped to compose, per the description, and pressing PrintScrn seems to generate a 99, but I don't seem to be able to generate the non-US keys.... Compose doesn't seem to be acting as a modifier properly (i.e., I hold it down and press an e, and I just see an e). In the StarOffice Help I see: Linux / NetBSD: Using the dead-keys. In an xterm window first press the 'or' key. It should not appear on the screen. Now press, for example, e. The e is given an accent é or è. If not, then check in the XF86Config file if a "nodeadkeys" XkbdVariant has been loaded there and replace it. You may also have set the environment variable SAL_NO_DEADKEYS, that deactivates the dead keys. All Unix systems: (Alt Gr) as additional compose key. The (Alt Gr) key can work in StarOffice like the Compose key, if you set the environment variable SAL_ALTGR_COMPOSE. The Alt Gr key must trigger a mode_switch, so, for example, xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_R = Mode_switch" must be set. First press (Alt Gr), then the first modifier, then the second modifier. The characters are combined as described on a Solaris system in the file /usr/openwin/include/X11/Suncompose.h." Anyone have a clue what the OR key is? Or the Alt Gr? R