What happens when type dead key "acute accent" then "o" to produce "ó"?

Question

I'm on Belgian keyboard (/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/be) and when I type AltGrù it produces the dead key "acute accent", it waits for another key, o for example, to produce ó.

How can I change which character is produced, such that I can do ´ + o = ɔ or anything I want?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 20 '18 at 20:02

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This behaviour is determined by the compose mappings. You can find your default mappings by looking up your locale in /usr/share/X11/locale/compose.dir, then checking the corresponding file, probably /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.

To override a compose sequence, create a file named ~/.XCompose, enter

include "%L"

as its first line (this includes the default mappings), then add your own after that:

<dead_acute> <o> : "ɔ"

You can verify your changes by starting a new xterm: it will reflect the settings on startup. Other X programs might not; for example I’ve seen GNOME Terminal pick changes up, but not systematically, even when restarting it.

answered Dec 20 '18 at 20:02

Stephen Kitt

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WDYM by `starting a new xterm` ? What is a `xterm` ? What does `%L` mean in that context ? – Robert Vanden Eynde Dec 22 '18 at 21:02
`xterm` is a terminal emulator for X; you start it by running `xterm`. `%L` in a compose file refers to the default compose file (see the first link for details). – Stephen Kitt Dec 22 '18 at 21:30
I use konsole on kde, so konsole is my xterm ? – Robert Vanden Eynde Dec 22 '18 at 22:16
So /usr/share/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose in my case ! Where is it defined that I have the locale iso8859-1 (I was looking for fr_BE). And this file already has a which one takes precedence ? – Robert Vanden Eynde Dec 22 '18 at 22:23

What happens when type dead key "acute accent" then "o" to produce "ó"?

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