I've got a dell stowaway keyboard on Expansys - quite cheap indeed. Being Italian, I need accented vowels, and for sure several other European and non-English languages do need them. The trick was getting xmodmap from the bluetooth plugin (it's explained elsewhere in the forums, just search bluetooth plugin) and use this single command line for xmodmap: xmodmap -e "keycode 115 = dead_grave dead_acute" This way i can use the "windows" key, down on the left side of my keyboard, as a double-use compose key. Clicking window key before a vowel gives that vowel with a grave accent: àèìòù Instead, clicking shift-window key before a vowel gives the acute accent: áéíóú "perché è così e sarà così`però`mai più!" :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)