Somehow I’ve stumbled upon a strange combination for special characters using my option keys, but they do not match what I’m expecting to be using on from the U.S. English Macintosh keyboard…
…and I still don’t know how to type an ellipsis without pasting…
Also, I’m now messing around with keyd because I desperately want to get my typing figured out and I am not sold on the compose key.
Using Xfce on real hardware (which feels a lot like it was modeled after Mac OS X a bit), I was able to pick my keyboard and I’m typing em dashes and elipses, no problem. Still annoyed that the left option key is unavailable to me by default. sigh