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).
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tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.17.4-200.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Fri Nov 21 23:59:46 UTC 2014 i686
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George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.