Re: Keyboard shortcut

On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:53:59 -0500
Ryan Pavlik <abiryan@ryand.net> wrote:

> Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér wrote:
> > Is it possible to assign keyboard shortcuts to symbols/special
> > characters? I am writing Esperanto, and it takes quite a lot of
> > time to call up the symbol list every time I have to write a c or g
> > with a ^ over them.
> >
> > Yours,
> > Morten
>
> This is probably best handled through your operating system - in the
> keyboard preferences most offer the ability to select an
> "International" variant (like "US-International with dead keys") that
> allows you to type interesting (accented) characters by first typing
> the accent then the character.

Usually I would - but Esperanto is a non-language as far as X.org is
concerned; there are some desktop environment-based options - KDE
offers esperanto-support - but using Xfce, I don't really have any
system-based options except using Xmodmap. Which is why some shortcuts
would be handy.

Yours,
Morten

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Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér
http://technographer.net * morten_at_technographer.net
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Received on Fri Oct 3 22:32:59 2008