Re: 3.6 Feature: IBus/XKB integration

[Pascal Terjan <pterjan gmail com>]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 15:20, Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org> wrote:
> Bastien Nocera wrote:
>
>> > I don't know of a physical keyboard layout that has a Compose key.
>> > So are we just deciding that one of the keys will always behave
>> > differently than the printed keycap?
>> >
>> > I suppose if you use a modifier key (R_Alt seems popular) then it
>> > can still function as a modifier as well as Compose, though that
>> > will interact poorly with sticky keys.
>>
>> The usual compose key for Western European keyboards is Alt-Gr. That's
>> just one more data point to add to that whole list.
>
> On my totally standard french layout, AltGr is used to type the key
> ternary character;

Same on my UK keyboard, where I use it quite a lot for "|"

> I just checked and setting it to be the Compose key
> breaks that access.
>
>
>        Fred (using the right Ctrl key for Compose)

rwin here :)