Changing keyboard layouts also sounds annoying considering it’s not like i’m entering accents everyday

On windows it was like ctrl + alt + numpad 1 + . for accents or something, no compose key required

  • @nour@lemmygrad.ml
    1•1 year ago

    The compose key isn’t a key that you might have on your keyboard, it’s achieved by binding an existing key to be the compose key instead of its usual functionality.

    E.g. I never use Caps Lock, so I have bound it to be the compose key, by creating the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-keyboard.conf with the following content:

    Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "keyboard-all"
    Driver "evdev"
    Option "XkbLayout" "us"
    Option "XkbOptions" "compose:caps"
    MatchIsKeyboard "on"
EndSection

    If you use a desktop environment like GNOME, there’s no need to edit config files like this, you can also do it graphically via the Gnome Tweaks application, see here for instructions: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/tips-specialchars.html.en#compose