For people who have other layouts than us on their keyboards, it's easy in *nix to remap keys to get special chars. For instance I use xmodmap to remap ALTGR +

For people who have other layouts than us on their keyboards, it's easy in *nix to remap keys to get special chars. For instance I use xmodmap to remap ALTGR + [ for å, ALTGR + ; for ö (+ SHIFT produces capital letters of the same) Example: xmodmap -e "keycode 108 = Mode_switch" && xmodmap -e "keycode 48 = apostrophe quotedbl adiaeresis Adiaeresis" This can of course be used for any kind of remapping in case your unhappy with some key locations.