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For some time I’ve been wanting to change the default behavior of my keyboard (on an Ubuntu 18.04 machine) when using the composition keys (dead-keys). Don’t know if it’s the setup I have (a default american english keyboard with a PT-BR locale) After several searches and a few dead ends (ibus and ibus-tables), I finally ended up with a solution, for my use case anyway. It turns out that the compose sequences were controlled by the files in <\/p>\n\n\n\n And the file I needed to change was this one:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The files are quote self explanatory and they seem to function in a hierarchical way, with the more specialized layouts including the more generic ones and overriding where needed. The pt_BR file included the en_US one, and the values I needed overriding were in the english one. Copying the relevant section and changing the end result was easy and I just added this to the end of the file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As I could not find an easy way to reload this, restarting the X server solved the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For some time I’ve been wanting to change the default behavior of my keyboard (on an Ubuntu 18.04 machine) when using the composition keys (dead-keys). The default behavior for the double quote key (“) to be a compose key, in order to be able to input charaters like \u00e4 (“+a)and \u00f6 (“+o), so if I … <\/p>\n
\nThe default behavior for the double quote key (\"<\/code>) to be a compose key, in order to be able to input charaters like \u00e4<\/code> (\"+a<\/code>)and \u00f6<\/code> (\"+o<\/code>), so if I wanted a \"<\/code>, I would need to press \"+spacebar<\/code>. I was used to just double tap the \"<\/code> key and get the \"<\/code> (from the Windows days, I think), so I wanted that, but the default is the daeresis sign (\u00a8<\/code>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nSo my input source is: “English (US, intl., with dead keys)”
\nAnd formats are defined as: “Brasil”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\/usr\/share\/X11\/locale<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n\/usr\/share\/X11\/locale\/pt_BR.UTF-8\/Compose<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<dead_diaeresis> <dead_diaeresis> : \"\\\"\" diaeresis # DIAERESIS\n<Multi_key> <quotedbl> <quotedbl> : \"\\\"\" diaeresis # DIAERESIS\n<dead_acute> <dead_acute> : \"'\" acute # ACUTE ACCENT\n<Multi_key> <apostrophe> <apostrophe> : \"'\" acute # ACUTE ACCENT<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n