[kde-linux] kde-linux Digest, Vol 51, Issue 20

[Thomas Ronayne]

kde-linux-request at kde.org wrote:
> first of all, i assume, that your from the US.
>   
Yup.
> so i think your keyboard has the US "qwerty" Layout.
>   
Yup.
> but.. as far as i know, there are no umlaut-keys.. 
>   
Oh, no, none of those.
> i refer myself to the vi-vim-cheatsheet
>
> with the accents i can help you..
>   
Ah, yes.
> go to the keyboard layout option in the control center...
>   
Yup, did that.
> klick the "Enable keyboard layouts" 
>   
Yup, did that too.
> this whole widget shouldn't be greyed out anymore ..
>   
And that.
> In active layouts you place all the layouts for your keyboard you want.. 
> In your case it would be US.. 
>   
And that.
> add it --> then expicitly choose it and then klick the drop-down menu 
> called "Layout variant" where you can choose different stuff..
>   
Yup, chose 'intl'
> 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 ?  ;)
>   
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.
> 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)
>   
You're right, no switching (but must type quote-space to not get accent, 
but, hey, better than nothing, eh).
> sorry can't help with the umlauts and all the characters usual in the 
> scandinavic countries..
>   
Life is better, nothing to be sorry about, you've helped a great deal, 
thank you for the explanation.

Thomas