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Hi.
I've been using the US-intl keyboard layout for a while, as ABTN2 (the standard Brazilian Portuguese) layout treats ' and " as dead keys, which makes programming incredibly annoying for me.
However, US-intl makes accented letters like ã, à and â annoying to type, requiring holding Alt as you press the respective keys.
As a solution, I decided to make a small fork of US-intl that changes ~, ` and ^ to dead keys, while leaving ' and " as non-dead keys (as you can easily type á with Alt+a).
It's nothing major or substantial, but I thought I'd share it in case some other brazilian / portuguese-speaking programmer might need it.
You can find it here: https://github.com/SkyLeite/us-br
I don't have a Compose key, and I really wish I did. I tried mapping my left Alt key to act as a Compose key, but I couldn't get it to work on Linux. As a workaround, I mapped a keycombo to pull up a rofi [1] menu with a list of common Unicode characters, and upon selection of a character it gets sent to my system clipboard, from where I can just paste it. In that regard, it's more like Character Map than like an actual Compose key, but it does work quite well for my needs.
When I'm on Windows, mapping a key to Compose is actually much easier to do, through the excellent WinCompose utility [2].
[1] https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
[2] http://wincompose.info/
I don't have a Compose key, and I really wish I did. I tried mapping my left Alt key to act as a Compose key, but I couldn't get it to work on Linux. As a workaround, I mapped a keycombo to pull up a rofi [1] menu with a list of common Unicode characters, and upon selection of a character it gets sent to my system clipboard, from where I can just paste it. In that regard, it's more like Character Map than like an actual Compose key, but it does work quite well for my needs.
When I'm on Windows, mapping a key to Compose is actually much easier to do, through the excellent WinCompose utility [2].
[1] https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
[2] http://wincompose.info/