[SWLUG] Welsh accents in Ubuntu

[Neil Greenwood]

On 2 February 2010 15:51, Chris Jackson <chriscf at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2 February 2010 15:12,  <marcus.davage at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Not that I'm trying to get my Ubuntu to speak Wenglish, mind, look you now
>> boyo, but has anyone monkeyed around with xmodmap keymappings to get î, ô,
>> ê, â, ŵ, ŷ on their keyboard? My wife is struggling bigtime with my recent
>> family migration to Linux and Open Office, in that she's used to the
>> <shift><6> to get the circumflex in MS Word.
>
> Compose, >, w (in sequence, not held down) will typically do the
> trick, tidy.  On a PC keyboard, Compose is usually mapped either to
> AltGr or Shift+AltGr.  Truth be told, GNOME and KDE typically have a
> configuration option somewhere that will redefine these things.  There
> may be other ways to get those directly mapped to keyboard strokes.
>

Hmm, Chris your suggestion works for a e i o u but not w or y on my
Hardy installation.

Only tried it in OOo though.

Cofion,
Neil.