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ehecatl42 56 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Past and Present Futures of User Interface Design

`~/.XCompose` is your friend.

I frequently input International Phonetic Alphabet glyphs, some polytonic Greek, some Spanish and some Old English. Nothing is more than three key-presses away after an AltGr.

ninalanyon 51 days ago [–]

I'll look into that. The compose key defined in Linux Mint's own keyboard settings doesn't work in Firefox.

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