2014-08-13 The compose key is a great think, IMO. Today, eventually, I ac- tivated it on my systems: $ ed - ~/.xinitrc /setxkbmap/s,$, compose:paus,p setxkbmap de nodeadkeys caps:escape compose:paus w q $ For possible compose keys, see: /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst. Unfortunately, you cannot choose the key freely. $ grep compose /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst compose:ralt Right Alt compose:lwin Left Win compose:rwin Right Win compose:menu Menu compose:lctrl Left Ctrl compose:rctrl Right Ctrl compose:caps Caps Lock compose:102 <Less/Greater> compose:paus Pause compose:prsc PrtSc compose:sclk Scroll Lock http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke