[kde-linux] Alternate Characters

[Bogus Zaba]

Thomas Ronayne wrote:
> Prior to KDE 3.5.x (I'm currently using 3.5.4) there was a way of 
> switching between US and US dead keys (at least I think that's what is 
> was) so I could type, say, the letter e followed by a singly quote to 
> get an accented e; same with umlauts and similar multi-stroke 
> characters. I've not been able to discover how to do that in KDE 3.4.x 
> and I wonder if someone would be kind enough to point the way -- fooling 
> the mouse to "insert a special character" is a complete pain and if 
> there is some way to type a sequence it would be a great thing.
>
> Thanks.
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Thomas - I have SUse 10.1 and KDE 3.5.1 so things may not be the same as 
with you, but for me the Menu entry >Personal Settings > Regional & 
Accesibility > Keyboard Layouts get me to a place with three tabs. One 
of these (the middle one) is called "Switching Options" and within that 
there is a toggle switch labelled "enable sticky switching". That might 
be what you want. I once had the keyboard set up like you say, with the 
possibility of modifying one key with another to produce accented 
characters. Inevitably I forgot how to do it and so if you get this 
working, remind me how its done...

Bogus Zaba