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Dead keys allows the user to easily enter characters like è õ ï ... etcetera from the keyboard.

Some keyboard settings allow to combine letters with special marks.

  • a + ' = á
  • e + " = ë
  • n + ~ = ñ

The name dead keys comes from the effect that first time you strike ^ ` ~ ' " nothing appears to happen.

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Compose "dead_greek" with compose key

The config file for my compose key /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose lists all the key sequences for composing Greek letters; all of them require the pressure of a special dead_greek key. This is not a physical key of course, so, how can I…
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US Intl keyboard layout without dead keys

Is it possible to use the US International keyboard layout without dead keys? So, I'd like to get an ä when I type Right Alt+q, but "a when I type "+a.
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How to Get A with Dots in Dvorak of Ubuntu 16.04?

I want to type A with dots (Ä / ä) as one-level keybinding in Ubuntu 16.04's keyboard of Macbook Air 2013-mid, output of setxkbmap -query rules: evdev model: pc105 layout: us,us variant: dvorak, options: ctrl:nocaps By default,…
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Combining keys (e.g., " + e = ë) not working in KDE applications (dead keys)

I have been using 'combining keys' such as + e = ë, ~ + a = ã, ^ + = ^ for the longest time in my Kubuntu setup. I do not remember if the system came like that out of the box or if I configured it somehow. After upgrading to Kubuntu 15.04…
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Can't type apostrophe, deadkeys do not work (bionic)

I use Ubuntu 18.04 bionic, and I use us(alt-intl) as a keyboard layout for Latin script, because sometimes I need type multilingual texts. Today I got very strange bug: now I cannot use the sign ' (apostrophe). When I press the key assigned…
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No tilde and no caret on german keyboard

In the course of a 11.10 install I lost network connect. So I skipped retrieving update packages and completed install, doing upgrade in the newly installed system. Everything is working fine, but the keyboard layout is not quite correct. Most keys…
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How to get dead_greek on the F9 key?

I'm trying to get my F9 key to function as the dead_greek compose character. It's not working. I have a custom keyboard layout in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us called mine. It has this entry for the F9 key: key { [ dead_greek, dead_greek,…
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Dead keys aren't working in wine

I'm trying to use MS-Office 2010 (I know... it's pretty old) with Wine and everything but my dead keys are not working perfectly. With any other application in Ubuntu 16.04 they works well... To clarify and give some examples: This is my physical…
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Keyboard buffer issue with multi-byte characters (latin, diacritics) / dead keys

I write in Spanish and sometimes I use diacritics (ie multi-byte chars) with dead keys, for example "liberación" ("liberation" in Spanish). Usually I don't have any problem, but when the GUI freeze or for any reason it can't handle more input, when…
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How to have programmer-friendly Dvorak with deadkeys in Ubuntu?

The current keyboard layout Dvorak with deadkeys is horrible. All those "¨` are under one key which is not practical for a programmer. OSX has well distributed programmer keys in Dvorak with deadkeys. Please, feel free to propose solutions that…
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Reference for special character input with dead keys

On Linux/Ubuntu, I have found a few options for entering special characters: AltGr+Key and Shift+AltGr+Key on keyboards that have AltGr; those can be found on the Keyboard Layout Chart in Ubuntu. For example, Shift+AltGr+Q produces Ω. Unicode…
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How to get letter "ć" with the dead keys?

I am running Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon (64 bit) and want to get letter "ć" using US layout with dead keys. My current layout is US with AltGr and dead keys, Compose key is set to Win. Here are some example inputs/outputs: AltGr+e = "é" AltGr+z = …
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Spanish Dead Keys doesn´t work properly on Ubuntu 16.04 when ibus is not selected

I made a clean install of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on my laptop, an asus UX305FA. Libreoffice spanish dead keys worked fine. Then, i installed winehq and playonlinux, and then installed MS Office 2010. By default, spanish dead keys doesn´t work on MS Office…
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Dead keys on Firefox Kubuntu 15.04

I use the GR-el version of the latest Firefox on Kubuntu 15.04. After the latest (2015-May-1) update, I can't have dead keys produce accents for (Greek GR-el / UTF-8). I can bypass this problem by running Firefox from the console with sudo. Would…
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Keyboard layout not working, dead keys come alive at random times

I am using the keyboard layout English (US international with dead keys). I type in English and in Portuguese, which makes use of characters such as "ç" and "é". When I discovered this layout it worked beautifully: I type "'", nothing happens, then…
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