Writing Special Characters and activating Compose Key

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Writing Special Characters and activating Compose Key

Post#1 by Michele13 » 31 Dec 2014, 18:41

I'd like write special characters like the tilde (~) and back quotes, I require them for writing things inside a wiki. Is there any way to enable alt-codes on Porteus or the Composite Key? (I'd like it to be a universal method that is independent from my Desktop Environment.

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Re: Writing Special Characters and activating Compose Key

Post#2 by francois » 01 Jan 2015, 21:38

I suspect that this link will yield the information that your would like:
http://fsymbols.com/keyboard/linux/
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Re: Writing Special Characters and activating Compose Key

Post#3 by fanthom » 02 Jan 2015, 11:52

'kmap=' chetcode should work:

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kmap=keyboardmap
kmap=keyboardmap1,keyboardmap2,keyboardmap3
kmap=keyboardmap:variant

   ... Specifies the preferred keyboard layout for KDE/LXDE/XFCE or
       other desktop. A full list of supported layouts can be found in
       the /etc/X11/xkb/symbols folder. Up to 3 layouts are supported.
       Example: 'kmap=ara,us' will set the arabic keyboard layout at
       startup. 'kmap=ara,us' will keep arabic layout as default
       with possibility of switching to 'us' by 'alt+shift' key
       combination.
       Keyboard layout variants are also supported.
       Example: 'kmap=pl:qwertz' will set the polish keyboard layout
       with 'qwertz' as a variant.
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