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On 11/04/2010 00:24, Rurik Christiansen wrote:
> On 10/04/2010 12:11 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> On 05.04.2010 09:46, Rurik Christiansen wrote:
>>> On 5/04/2010 5:59 AM, Andy Koppe wrote:
>>>> Rurik Christiansen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Is there a way to have something similar to Xcompose for utf8 input
>>>>> ?
>>>> You can have actual Xcompose by running an X server and using xterm or
>>>> rxvt-unicode.
>
> How do I enable that ? (doesn't work by default)

You need to select a compose key by using e.g. 'setxkbmap -option 
compose:rctrl' or XWin's -xkboption option.

Possibilities for the compose key seem to be: ralt, lwin, rwin, menu, lctrl, 
rctrl,caps

Obviously, this only affects input into X applications.

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