RE: Ascii characters without keys.

I was  just playing with Virtual Box, and the Right-Ctrl key, which is
used to switch between the virtual PC input and the main OS input, was
also one of the Compose Keys that I selected. That was causing a little
problem, in that once I clicked in the virtual box windows, I coul dno
more get out of it, until the client OS was actually shut down.

JF
 
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   -------- Original Message --------
 Subject: Re: [oclug] Ascii characters without keys.
 From: Andy Civil <[email protected]>
 Date: Mon, August 03, 2009 11:10 pm
 To: General Membership Discussion List <[email protected]>
 
 The Linux Doctor wrote:
 
 > The traditional way of inputting these characters is through the
 > Compose-key. On multi-lingual keyboards it is usually in the
Right-Alt
 > key position and labelled AltCar or AltGroß on German keyboards.
 
 That's perfect. I didn't yet find an option to enter an arbitrary
character, but 
 all the ones I want are there, and it's far easier to remember. And
yes, I 
 remember Sun workstations from the old days had a "compose" key that
worked in 
 exactly that way. I didn't know Linux had it.
 
 Just for the record, on my Ubuntu, I found the option under System -
Preferences 
 - Keyboard - Layout Options - Compose Key Position. None was checked; I
chose 
 the right "windoze" key. I don't have to hold the key down.
 
 Thanks for all the answers, sorry I was a bit slow with the ack.
 
 -- 
 Andy
 
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