From: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031(a)yahoo.com>
Subject: where do I put a command to setup keyboard shortcuts for Gnome 3
To: "fedora-test-list" <test(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 7:29 PM
Dear folks,
I am running Gnome 3 and want to setup a special keyboard
mapping to be able to get special keys/shortcuts see
http://sob.apotheon.org/?p=814 for
special character
discussion.
ñ For students/parents with last names Peña, or Treviño
as examples, also for accents like José
The command
setxkbmap -option compose:ralt
does the job and instead of placing it in
/etc/rc.d/rc.local or /etc/rc.local or other older
solution. If I need to put in ~/.bashrc, ~/.xinitrc
will it start and allow me to input the special
characters?
I have figured it out for (FreeBSD and Slackware[XFCE
desktop]) using startx and automatic login using
tricks. Have not figured it out for Fedora with
gnome-shell or Gnome 3 :(
Where will it work? (~/.xinitrc), (~/.bashrc),
(~/.config/autostart), using regular startup(level 5
with systemd)?
Thanks to the other suggestions I got gkrellm to run at
startup using gkrellm.desktop in ~/.config/autostart/, do I
need something similar. I want to have this available
so my students can compose the special characters and I
don't have to type the command everytime :(
This way they can type their correspondance to their
spanish professors at the community college. They want
to use alt+164, but I got advice to use the compose key + ~
=> ñ
Thanks in Advance,
Antonio
--
I have tried creating a file in
userdirectory
~/.xinitrc with the command, but it does not work.
Any suggestions out there? Works with KDE/XFCE/ other desktops out there? a universal
solution not necessarily for Gnome 3?
Thanks,
Antonio