On Sun, 2014-12-14 at 12:21 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
You can avoid the special Compose key by an appropriate keyboard selection that supports dead keys. I use UK International so to type á I hit ' and a. Similarly ñ is ~ and n, and so on. This is under KDE but I assume the same thing would work with Gnome.
I'd tried that in the past, but then it made it horrible to type in normal punctuation. Commas, apostrophes, etc., had to be typed twice, to get them to appear. I use them, a lot, and having to do that was horrid.
It's about damn time that a proper international keyboard was brought out, to supersede querty. One where all the usual accents, and extra punctuation, are on their keys (such as where the, usually, useless F keys are).