keyboard setting

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On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:03:31 +0300
Mihamina Rakotomandimby <mihamina at gulfsat.mg> wrote:

> Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour,
> 
> My wife's laptop is with a "qwerty" (us) keyboard, but she has to
> correctly write french, with é, à, ç,..., at least in abiword, but
> preferrably on all applications requiring input (claws-mail, epiphany
> browser textareas, pidgin,...).
> 
> I would like then to tweak the keyboard map to have é,à,è,ç in the
> simplest way, at the user DE level.
> 
> Using XFCE (Xubuntu lucid) what are your advices for that?
> 
> Misaotra, Thanks, Merci.
> 
In KDE I have set up a compose key, in my case the right start key. Then I can type in various accents etc. Some examples

compose + apostrophe + the letter e gives me é (as in café)

compose + comma + c gives me ç as in garçon)

Is this not possible in Xfce??

Neil