I installed DSL on an old laptop. Just about everything works fine
except for the accents. I have a US keyboard so I set up the keyboard
to US Intl, but can't figure out a way to use a dead key in order to
get the accents. According to what I read on the net, I should be able
to press Alt and an accent followed by a letter. I also tried all
kind of key combinations without success. - Fn-Alt (left/right), Ctrl,
Ctrl-Alt, ... I tried to change the keyboard layout using xkeycaps,
but I cannot figure out how to assign a dead key. Any suggestions?

Pierre Renaud <pierre.renaud******.com> writes:

> Just about everything works fine except for the accents. I have a US
> keyboard so I set up the keyboard > to US Intl, but can't figure out a
> way to use a dead key in order to get the accents.

Select a key you don't need and remap it to be a Compose Key with xmodmap.
I use Scroll Lock and have the following line in my ~/.xmodmap

keycode 0x4e = Multi_key

which I load with "xmodmap ~/.xmodmap" as part of fvwm's setup.

Then I can press Scroll Lock, accent, key and get the appropriate accented
letter.

This will apply to most apps like firefox, pidgin, etc. On my editor,
XEmacs, things work a bit different and the above is not needed.

-- HASM