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Grima

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Registered: 2011-09-02

Posts: 58

[SOLVED] Replacing a keyboard character with another

Ever since I found out about the compose key, which makes characters like ß, þ, µ and so on easily accessible, I've always missed en-dash (i.e. –). I would like to remap the key combination "compose -" to en-dash. Currently, it produces weird dots ̣̣̣̣ that I never use.

How could I accomplish this task? I'm using Gnome 3.12 if that matters.

Last edited by Grima (2014-05-11 09:18:49)

Gcool

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Registered: 2011-08-16

Posts: 1,456

Re: [SOLVED] Replacing a keyboard character with another

You should be able to do this using Xmodmap I reckon.

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o_caino

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Registered: 2013-06-06

Posts: 167

Re: [SOLVED] Replacing a keyboard character with another

The complete list of keysym names is in the header file /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h
The keysym name for the en-dash is "endash". Take a look at your current configuration with xmodmap -pke and modify the relevant line to use it as input of xmodmap -e, e.g.

xmodmap -e "keycode 61 = minus underscore minus underscore endash dead_abovedot dead_belowdot dead_abovedot"

Grima

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Registered: 2011-09-02

Posts: 58

Re: [SOLVED] Replacing a keyboard character with another

Working great, guys. Thanks a lot!