Easy umlauts?

[Kurt Wall]

An unnamed Administration source, Leon A. Goldstein, wrote:
% Kurt wrote:
% 
% > An unnamed Administration source, Joel Hammer, wrote:
% > % All I want to do is use umlauts in Ding. The Ding help says that if
% > % you don't have umlauts on your keyboard to use an "a" for "a umlaut"
% > % but that doesn't work, at least for me.
% > %
% > % I switched to German in KDE (easy in lindows) but I still don't get any
% > % umlauts after pressing all the keys.
% > %
% > % So, two questions:
% > % 1. Is there a quick and easy way to get umlauts off the typical English
% > % Keyboard?
% >
% >> a umlaut: LAlt+d
% >> e umlaut: LAlt+k
% >> i umlaut: LAlt+o
% >> o umlaut: LAlt+v
% >>
% Kurt: vielen Dank fuer den Ratschlag, aber leider klappt's nicht.
% 
% Sorry, but it doesn't seem to work for me.  That's left alt + x?

Richtig.

% I'd like to know how to do this too.  It was so much easier in DOS: alt + xxx on the numeric keyboard.

More generally, the approach is to use the Compose key (AltGr, usually
RAlt) plus a series of keystrokes to generate the character you want.

See http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.html for way
more information than you probably want, especially Chapter 13 on X.
"man xmodmap" is also a good place to start.


Kurt
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