I am looking for a way to bind Greek letters to keys, such as alpha to
win+a, along with capital alpha being win+shift+a. I am using X and
gedit primarily.

It appears that unicode files would be a fine way to have it in the
files.

Any thoughts on how I might do this?

- Jeff.

Jeffrey Drake staggered into the Black Sun and said:
> I am looking for a way to bind Greek letters to keys, such as alpha to
> win+a, along with capital alpha being win+shift+a. I am using X and
> gedit primarily. Any thoughts on how I might do this?

This is not as easy as you might want AFAICT from looking at the Compose
maps in en_US.UTF-8. There are a metric ton of alphas listed there, one
Multi_key combination for every distinct set of accent marks over the
alpha, and they all seem to require the Greek_alpha key. It's always
possible to use xbindkeys and xmacroplay to bind a key combination to a
set of arbitrary keypresses, but I don't know whether it would work
properly in all X apps. What's your 'Doze key bound to, anyway? Super?

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