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Thomas Ronayne wrote:
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<pre wrap="">first of all, i assume, that your from the US.
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Yup.
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<pre wrap="">so i think your keyboard has the US "qwerty" Layout.
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Yup.
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<pre wrap="">but.. as far as i know, there are no umlaut-keys..
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Oh, no, none of those.
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<pre wrap="">i refer myself to the vi-vim-cheatsheet
with the accents i can help you..
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Ah, yes.
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<pre wrap="">go to the keyboard layout option in the control center...
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Yup, did that.
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<pre wrap="">klick the "Enable keyboard layouts"
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Yup, did that too.
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<pre wrap="">this whole widget shouldn't be greyed out anymore ..
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<pre wrap=""><!---->And that.
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<pre wrap="">In active layouts you place all the layouts for your keyboard you want..
In your case it would be US..
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<pre wrap=""><!---->And that.
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<pre wrap="">add it --> then expicitly choose it and then klick the drop-down menu
called "Layout variant" where you can choose different stuff..
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Yup, chose 'intl'
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<pre wrap="">since i'm not from the US i only tried a bit, to be able to do what you
want... with the "intl" layout variant i was able to write an ? and an ? and
an ? ;)
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Yes, I can type é and ũ and pretty much everything *but* an umlaut (used
to be colon-u). There is the sound of gnashing teeth accompanying.
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<pre wrap="">this way you're able to write accent characters and normal characters all the
time .. no need to switch between different variants/layouts/etc... (at least
i think so)
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<pre wrap=""><!---->You're right, no switching (but must type quote-space to not get accent,
but, hey, better than nothing, eh).
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<pre wrap="">sorry can't help with the umlauts and all the characters usual in the
scandinavic countries..
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Life is better, nothing to be sorry about, you've helped a great deal,
thank you for the explanation.
Thomas
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OK, here´s how I get umlauted a, o etc. I have the British (GB)
keyboard enabled with the intl variant. I know press the Control key
(left or right) together with the ¨ (double quote - shift-2 on my GB
keyboard) symbol. Let go the control and press your a or o or u and out
pops ä ö ü. Not sure of course how this will work on a US keyboard.
Presumably there is a double quote symbol somewhere on it, although I
guess it is not shift-2. By the way I don know why itś the Control key
that does the magic. I read about it somewhere, but my ¨compose¨ key is
actually set to right-Alt which I seem to have to use to create some
accented characters. Umlaut works with the control-key thing. <br>
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Bogus<br>
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