Where's my compose key?

[Carnildo]

I just upgraded from KDE 3.4 to 3.5. Under KDE 3.4, I had the right window key mapped as a compose key. Under KDE 3.5, it doesn't work any more, and I can't find the Control Center panel where I set it last time.

[coolsnowmen]

In general keyboard shortcuts are in
contol center - > Regional & Accessibility -> Keyboard Shortcuts

but I don't know what this "compose" is you speak of...

[Carnildo]

It's one way of creating accented characters on a keyboard that doesn't have keys for them. You hit the compose key, then a letter, then an accent mark, and it produces an accented letter. You can also produce other characters such as the Spanish upside-down question mark and exclamation point using the compose key.

[derelm]

i am missing that one badly too...
it used to be like press and hold shift, press ctrl. release both and press something like ´a to generate an accented a

[Carnildo]

If you're using split ebuilds, you need to emerge the "kde-base/kxkb" package.

[xyon]

[mattsteven]

Thank you Carnildo, your answer was helpful.

Once it's installed guys go to kcontrol -> Keyboard layout
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[jquinte]

Thanks a lot, Carnildo! That helped!