Comments on: non-English characters in Linux

By: Sam Korn

Sam Korn — Fri, 04 May 2007 19:12:16 +0000

I find the best key to use with this is the right Windows key. This, for anyone who doesn’t know, is Super_R.

By: TLAPALE Émilien

TLAPALE Émilien — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:48:03 +0000

Hi! Thanks a lot for your tip! Just the line i’m going to add to my ion3 scripts :-)

By: sarah

sarah — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:37:30 +0000

Not all people are using window managers that have taskbars, or that offer such features. I know for a long time I used Blackbox due to its simplicity, and I never found a ‘special character applet’ that I could’ve put on my taskbar. Before that was fvwm2, which didn’t even have a taskbar in my setup.

By: Andrew Stein

Andrew Stein — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 04:57:58 +0000

Just add the special character applet to the taskbar. Lol.

By: Art

Art — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:42:11 +0000

Use the Windows key instead of Alt It works in OOo and you aren’t using it for anything else anyway.

By: Theo

Theo — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:38:26 +0000

Hello from Belgium !
i am a Ubuntu newbie and have a Qwerty
Keyboard ,choose Dutch as Keyboard layout
but @ doesnot show up .Copy and pasting it does work, but thats not the way….
Thanks

By: Pádraig Brady

Pádraig Brady — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:02:20 +0000

Have a look at:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/xkeyboard/

By: Andrew Conkling

Andrew Conkling — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:34:12 +0000

I’ve actually put this in my ~/.bash_profile which is only run on invoking non-interactive sessions (e.g. logging in). So it won’t be run every time you open a terminal. I think some distros handle this differently, but this is the gist.

Also, to avoid the error printing, just add ‘&> /dev/null’ to the end. Be warned, though; this will not print anything, even something that may be useful. So only add it after you’re sure it’s working as it should.

But let me say, ït îs for me! :)

By: Frosty

Frosty — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 05:49:47 +0000

I know this is kinda late, but an easy way to get this to work at startup (in Ubuntu at least) is to do a sudo nano /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh and insert the xmodmap command that you use at the bottom of the file (but before the : exit 0 line, be sure of that ;)), save it, reboot, and it still works! Far easier than doing .bashrc editing, IMO. :D

By: Trinity

Trinity — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:22:31 +0000

Thanks! I am using bash, so I’ll just throw that command in a file and deal with the error for now :D

Man, that rhymes!

By: sarah

sarah — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:47:53 +0000

Actually... Yes, that's the way it works. You can put the xmodmap command in a script that gets executed every time you reboot back into Linux. For example, my window manager IceWM has a "startup" file that is executed as soon as I load IceWM. Or, a ghetto solution if you don't mind receiving an error message every time you open a term, is to put the command in a file called .bashrc in your home directory. Assuming you use bash as your shell, and not something like csh or zsh. To test and see which shell you use, do the command echo $SHELL in a term.

By: Trinity

Trinity — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 06:02:08 +0000

I’Ve got one problem regarding this… I assigned my left alt key to do this, as you know, but upon rebooting my computer, the left alt doesn’t work in that way anymore. Shouldn’t assigning this key mean it STAYS assigned? I shouldn’t have to reassign it ever time I reboot, should I?