From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 21 16:02:14 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7D5B106566B for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:02:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olivares14031@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 377448FC13 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:02:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn33 with SMTP id 33so7721363iwn.13 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:02:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=L4KHQ8t0dULUme9YW+9ZYsEXyQcK4xPFoqisN8pmgqI=; b=mn0DbCkfJtf8i7KeXYgPvM8dTZGQJRMiSfyMFBrhK5RNU0iYYDUNbwCFSWVepTRlGn kd0uMVVIBCD1zbHy+bJ3ZFaTuhdV8q24Oi26H2Td+kQrPHGrLJ4HwpbviQT+SR6qZC4m ejYB4pAV2OA8tr/vsGEFZFjzt652c9txlyYLw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=uhPUC/ZNltVLTO2FDWPTwKKKTy3KCcDV6mGdH3yZKNS3/W+m+v3ul29As859rGAov0 96d1ejIgvSH1PXYfGymjzSdeBxgVyAB+ull1nh8o8UiIK7wCw+NtUN+ub46hExUejnUz E5Os5C7GEN9NqLw9rlG+5v3b+3tjjYIqVVEao= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.120.193 with SMTP id e1mr4309004ibr.154.1300723333509; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:02:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.23.81 with HTTP; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:02:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110312232449.GA91695@guilt.hydra> References: <20110312232449.GA91695@guilt.hydra> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:02:13 -0500 Message-ID: From: Antonio Olivares To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Chad Perrin Subject: Re: Character shortcuts X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:02:14 -0000 On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Chad Perrin 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