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

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 21 June 2007 22:01:40 Bogus Zaba wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >> 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. 

What is this intl variant?  How/where did you set it up? 

> 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.
>
It doesn't work here, but I have the straightforward GB keyboard.  I'd be 
interest to hear more.

Anne
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