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Re: German keyboard key bindings?
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Kai Grossjohann |
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Re: German keyboard key bindings? |
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Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:57:00 +0000 |
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Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:
> But you can map any key as a compose key using xmodmap, e.g. the
> "menu" key or the (right or left) "windows" keys (Super_R, Super_L).
> `Compose " a' gives `ä' and so on. So you have exactly the same as
> you described for AllChars or am I missing something?
The differences between AllChars and the compose key:
* The compose key and the ctrl key must be different keys. With
AllChars, the same key (the ctrl key) is doing double duty. I have
lots of ctrl keys on my keyboard, so it is easy to hit them ;-)
* The compose key has a predefined number of combos, such that I must
always use " a or a " to get ä. But AllChars is configurable, so
that I can configure any two-character combination instead of " a
and a ". (I configured ctrl a a to produce ä, which is easier to
type than ctrl a " or ctrl " a.)
Kai