Re: [vile] Question on input of UTF8 char's in programs.

[Steven Lembark]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 09:01:04 +0100
Chris Green <address@hidden> wrote:

> > In order to use the first (directly), you need get your X11 keyboard
> > to send the characters.  There are various ways to do that, but the
> > simplest is to configure a compose key.  If you use Gnome or KDE then
> > there will be a control panel to select one.  If you have a different
> > environment, then you may need to set it up in xorg.conf, or using
> > something like "setxkbmap -option compose:ralt" (see
 
> I use xmodmap which is pretty universally available.  If you create a
> file ~/.Xmodmap then xmodmap will be invoked automatically at login
> and use the contents of ~/.Xmodmap to configure your keyboard.
> 
> To configure one of my Windows keys as the compose key I have:-
> 
>     keycode 134 = Multi_key
> 
> (to find the keycodes use xev)
> 
> I also switch off Caps Lock (horrible key) with my .XModmap:-
> 
>     keycode 66 =

One [more] nice about fvwm: it doesn't swallow keystrokes.

thanks

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