[SWLUG] Welsh accents in Ubuntu

[Marcus Davage]

Smashing!

Holding down AltGr and 2 (") gives then i, gives ï
AltGr+2 then o = ö
AltGr+6 then w = ŵ
AltGr then ` then a gives à
AltGr and a gives á

That's got me going!

Thanks.

Marcus

On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 22:02 +0000, Neil Greenwood wrote:
> 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.
> 
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