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That's what I came here to say. I can't believe the use of the compose key isn't more common. I just remap caps lock (which I don't like) to compose and kill
by AndresNavarro 11y ago
That's what I came here to say. I can't believe the use of the compose key isn't more common. I just remap caps lock (which I don't like) to compose and kill two birds with one stone...
- hahainternet 11y agoOn a lot of Linuxes you can use alt-gr for third level keys too, which is handy for «» for example (altgr + z, x) or “” (v, b)
- geofft 11y agoI imagine it's uncommon because it's thoroughly undiscoverable, and not super useful by default for lack of a good .XCompose file. I know how this stuff works and I haven't bothered because I don't want to figure it out again on each machine / desktop environment / etc.