[globuous]

True that. But I typed French on a qwerty for a while on Mac OS, and you « just » alt+e-e to do é or something. You get used to it.

And on iPhones, I never actually hold « e » to show the accents, their system figures out the accents. Although it missed sometimes, it’s pretty good. I can just type « je suis arrivee a la maison » and it accentuâtes my letters properly. Actually, I had to manually remove the accents for this exemple ^^

Édit: ok, that’s kinda funny, it must be because I typed French in English and it messed it up, but « accentuâtes » doesn’t make any sense, same with « édit » it just inferred for my. Leaving the message as is for the lols

[peoplefromibiza]

That's what I used too on Mac and it also works on Linux

AltGr+e for grave accent and AltGr+' for acute accent.

Much better than auto completion boxes

My language, as yours, contains a lot of accented letters and it would be absolutely impractical to chose them from a dropdown.

p.s. I type on an Italian keyboard with UK layout because it's more comfortable for typing code

[makapuf]

I understand you so much. Typing code on a non US keyboard (French here) is much worse. I long for a French coder layout.

[makapuf]

Accentuâtes and édit do make sense as French words. An Édit is an edict, and accentuâtes is simple past (passé simple) for accentuer (accentuate).

[larusso]

I’m typing German on a US keyboard layout and I’m very used to the alt +u-u chord etc to write the Inlauts. I still don’t have a setup on Linux though because I’m used to type this sequence with the left Alt key not the right.

[peoplefromibiza]

AFAIK at least on GNOME and KDE you can assign any special key to be the compose key, including left Alt.