"Austad, Jay" wrote: > > Under windows, if I hold down alt, and hit 164 on the keypad, it will type > an n with a squiggly thing above it. How do I do this under linux? > > Apparently my spanish speaking friends get all huffy-puffy when I don't use > the correct characters even though they know what I mean. :) The easier thing to do under Linux is to set up the Windows keys to have different behaviors. I think the trick is to set up XFree86 with a pc104 keyboard, and the `nodeadkeys' option turned on. One of the Windows keys (I think it's the one on the right) will be turned into a `compose' key, where you can hit compose, then n, then ~ and get the right result (unfortunately, I can't demonstrate because my X setup is moderately borked right now..) -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Does the reverse side / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ also have a reverse side? \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ]