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
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
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