why can't I make a link to /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose? On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 4:34 PM Michael wrote: > thank you > > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 4:30 PM Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> On 2022-07-11 13:09, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote: >> > How does one invoke the copyright symbol and all the other special >> > symbols that aren't on the US keyboard? >> >> First, one[0] assigns a Multi_key if there is not one present. I >> usually use the right-Ctrl for this purpose. By running xev in a >> terminal and pushing that key, I see that that is keycode 105 on my >> keyboard. Your keyboard may be different, check. Armed with this >> information, one does "xmodmap -e 'keycode 105 = Multi_key' ". Then one >> looks in /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose to see all the things >> one can do. One can, for instance, do Multi_key, = , then C, and get a >> Euro sign. Or one can do Multi_key, ' , then a vowel, and get that >> vowel with an acute accent. >> >> [0] One believes using "one" like this has jumped the 19th-century >> English teacher shark. >> >> -- >> Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress >> There is no Darkness in Eternity >> But only Light too dim for us to see. >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: