[kde-linux] Accent Characters

[Thomas Ronayne]

kde-linux-request at kde.org wrote:

    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 & 
    Accessibility > 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 labeled "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

Yeah, I fooled around with that and got nowhere at the speed of light. 
The FAQ talks about "keyboard layout with dead keys," and, of course, 
there isn't any such thing any more, sigh. I have a feeling that there 
is a simple, elegant way to do this but it's a big secret and nobody 
wants to talk about it (most KDE documentation leaves, well, a lot to be 
desired when you get past the "click-and-drool" parts).

Oh, well, thanks for trying.