On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 12:44:07PM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote:
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> >I need some test reports for this on both US and non-US (aka silly)
> >keyboards please.
> >  
> Silly?? Just try typing n-tilde and accents using all copy and paste!
> I've done that horror now and then.
> Ouch! :)

Put something like

	setxkbmap -option compose:ralt

into your .xsession and you can use all kind of accented characters
and umlauts with your shiny new compose key (using ralt-"-a, ralt-s-s,
ralt-n-~ etc.).

Ciao,
	Kili