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Cake day: January 4th, 2025

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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key the wikipedia page for it

    in short, with it you can press Compose then some diacritic/accent then the letter

    something like this <Compose> ` a -> à

    unfortunaely it is a Linux and BSD thing only that stems from Xorg’s compatibility with many legacy system some of which had a dedicated compose key thus it was added to xkdb (which still used by Wayland compositors and thus the compose key works fine there) and to Xorg

    In Plasma (formely KDE) there is a setting in the keyboard layout section that allows you to bind compose key to something like left control, GNOME as always doesnt has this by default you will need an extension, which one? idk, havent used gnome in years, you could also just figure out how to use xkdb directly but it is a mess and a complete pain to understand how to, I myself have no idea and would want to stay away from it, as for other DEs I am unaware if they provide a GUI for changing this or not



  • people will often label themselves as simply following their own beauty standards when their “own” is clearly influenced and by majority is the current fashion, simply because that’s all they have been exposed to. And thus they will justify following current fashion disguised as following their own unique style when more often than not it is simply not true