Easy Italian accents on any keyboard layout (Linux)

XCompose

# If you need to a more ergonomic way to write Italian accents
# on a keyboard which doesn't have them natively, this might help.
# It requires you to set a Compose key (I use the Menu key) on your system
#
# There are only 6 accented vowels in Italian, àèìòù and é
# With this setup, for the first five, you only have to press 
# Compose + vowel + vowel (i.e. à is Compose + a + a)
#
# For é I use Compose + e + i because on my keyboard layout 
# "e" and "i" are close to each other, on QWERTY
# you might want to use "e" and "r"
#
# Save as ~/.XCompose

include "%L"

<Multi_key> <a> <a>     : "à"
<Multi_key> <e> <e>     : "è"
<Multi_key> <e> <i>     : "é"
<Multi_key> <u> <u>     : "ù"
<Multi_key> <o> <o>     : "ò"
<Multi_key> <i> <i>     : "ì"