gabriel.ipc
New Member
Hey,
So, I am very new to Linux - in short, I installed Parrot OS.
Language is English and the keyboard layout is US international with dead keys (I need to type all sorts of accents and Latin characters).
Only problem - when I was typing '+c I kept getting "ć" instead of "ç". All other accents and characters and layout worked perfectly.
I started to dig the issue on the internet and then I decided to make changes in the file:
/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose\
Well, I kind of screwed it, hardly even knowing what I was doing to be honest.
I though, all right, I might just delete the file altogether and reboot, the system is probably going to see it is missing and recreate it all new.
$ rm -rf
$ reboot
Now I'm really screwed, the system didn´t add it back, and all dead keys, accents, Latin characters, I just cannot use any at all.
Well, digging the internet I tried:
$ sudo apt --reinstall install libx11-dev
no luck.
I even found this: https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/libX11/i18n/compose/en_US.UTF-8.html
I though, ah, fine, let's just copy it and create the file again:
$ nano Compose (in the correct directory)
Then ctrl+shit+v
saved, exited, reboot.
no luck again
I just thought, well, I might just reinstall the entire distro and give another try at solving the "ç" problem, it is just it felt kind of extreme and... kind of giving up hahaha
I am sorry for all the insane newbie thinking and messing around I did.
Any kind soul out there to help me get the compose file back?
Thank you all very very much!
So, I am very new to Linux - in short, I installed Parrot OS.
Language is English and the keyboard layout is US international with dead keys (I need to type all sorts of accents and Latin characters).
Only problem - when I was typing '+c I kept getting "ć" instead of "ç". All other accents and characters and layout worked perfectly.
I started to dig the issue on the internet and then I decided to make changes in the file:
/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose\
Well, I kind of screwed it, hardly even knowing what I was doing to be honest.
I though, all right, I might just delete the file altogether and reboot, the system is probably going to see it is missing and recreate it all new.
$ rm -rf
$ reboot
Now I'm really screwed, the system didn´t add it back, and all dead keys, accents, Latin characters, I just cannot use any at all.
Well, digging the internet I tried:
$ sudo apt --reinstall install libx11-dev
no luck.
I even found this: https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/libX11/i18n/compose/en_US.UTF-8.html
I though, ah, fine, let's just copy it and create the file again:
$ nano Compose (in the correct directory)
Then ctrl+shit+v
saved, exited, reboot.
no luck again
I just thought, well, I might just reinstall the entire distro and give another try at solving the "ç" problem, it is just it felt kind of extreme and... kind of giving up hahaha
I am sorry for all the insane newbie thinking and messing around I did.
Any kind soul out there to help me get the compose file back?
Thank you all very very much!