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

[Bogus Zaba]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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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You pick the variant of the keyboard layout in KMenu > Personal Settings 
 > Regional & Accessibility > Keybaord Layout. The top tab in this form 
has a long list of national keyboard layouts on the left and the usual 
list of th eones you want to use on the right with buttons to move them 
around. Underneath the right hand list is a drop down box labelled 
¨Layout Variant¨. It is only functional if one of the layouts above is 
highlighted. For the GB layout I get the following variants : Basic, 
Intl and Dvorak. All this is with Suse 10.1 and KDE 3.5.1. In my previos 
KDE version ¨Personal Settings¨ was called something else, possibly 
¨Control Centre¨. btw if you do select this variant you cannot just hit 
(Shift-2) to get ¨ - you have to hit it twice, because first time it 
thinks you are building up an umlauted character. Also my previous post 
which said that Control needs to be pressed when pressing the accent was 
rubbish - it works whether Control is pressed or not, so obviously 
easier to do it without.

Bogus