Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:02:13 -0500 From: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> Subject: Re: Character shortcuts Message-ID: <AANLkTinKwSv9Q_15soLcxC9O=TY2h5aB21VPioEcDfAv@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110312232449.GA91695@guilt.hydra> References: <AANLkTimEHuVq_menbHAQkw09%2Bf7bAHMR=Xn-Y6gnzuFi@mail.gmail.com> <20110312232449.GA91695@guilt.hydra>
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On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 02:07:59PM -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: >> Dear FreeBSD experts, >> >> There has been something that I find hard to do, I would like to find >> a CTRL + KEY combination, or ALT + KEY combination to input special >> characters like (=F1) =A0[ALT + 164 or ALT + 0241 in Mr. Gates OS]. >> >> http://www.forlang.wsu.edu/help/keyboards.asp >> >> accents other symbols like copyright, euro, etc. =A0I would like to do >> the same(have a special key combination) to get the characters in >> FreeBSD too, but googling have not found something that works. =A0I even >> tried to run a litte program in the shell to generate the characters >> to use for cutting + pasting to no avial. > > I wrote this about setting up a Compose key a while back: > > =A0 =A0entering special characters in Xorg > =A0 =A0http://sob.apotheon.org/?p=3D814 > > -- > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] > Chad & all, using the command $ setxkbmap -option compose:ralt works very well :) Thank you all for the help provided. using the ALT key + SHIFT (TILDE ~) + n gives : =F1 , accents and other special characters are easy to do now thanks to the much easier to follow than Mr. Gates OS :) Regards, Antonio
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