Compose Key

Today, was I inspried by seeing a character that I had never seen before. Can you believe it‽

https://infosec.exchange/@RnDanger/116071816467737505

Months earlier I had played around with setting up the compose key on my keyboard for Spanish accents, etc. but got distracted and it didn't stick.

Today I am trying to set it up again and see how well it works for me in the coming days and months.

I also want to be able to easily type the "interrobang!"

I figured the compose key would be able to do it. And although it's not on the lists of standard compose key cheat-sheets, it does work by hitting compose+!?

I edited /etc/default/keyboard with this line to make it stick:

XKBOPTIONS="compose:caps"

Then ran this command to make it immediate:

setxkbmap -option compose:caps

All done.

¡Y ahora también puedo usar acentos en español!

Other resources consulted

https://duncanlock.net/blog/2013/05/03/how-to-set-your-compose-key-on-xfce-xubuntu-lxde-linux/

https://andyf.me/compose-key.html

https://gist.github.com/imasaru/25e0dbbca037ae6ab4c2e757b71c88be