"Richard A. O'Keefe" wrote:
Torge Husfeldt jean-jacques.gelee@gmx.de wrote: The other solution I saw was the Sun-keyboards wich use a dedicated combine-key.
The Sun model 3 keyboard doesn't have it. On the "English" Sun keyboards that do, it is labelled "Compose". The first time I saw such a thing was on DEC terminals; I have always thought that's where it came from. In the X Window System the compose key is regarded as obsolete; it took me _ages_ to track down a list of which keys to use to get what character. These days you are supposed to use 'input methods' instead, but at least on this Solaris 2.8 box I have not been about to track down any information about them.
apropos keyboard chucks up lots of man pages which *may* be relevant -- on Linux anyway. But those that I've tried to date are pretty incomprehensible (it's always puzzled me that the inventor of Perl writes wonderful man pages). Barmy to be able to get a Hungarian menu at the click of a mouse, but not a nice graphical way of putting all these stupid surplus buttons that come on Windows keyboards to good use. Ah, there is a thing called Xcapkeys...... I'll take a look.
Cheers
John