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

[Bogus Zaba]

Thomas Ronayne wrote:
> 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.
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>> 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
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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.

Bogus
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