writing (french) accents with a QWERTY keyboard

[Thibauld]

Hi,

First of all, thanks for your solutions..
Just to let you know about the (probably) final solution/explanation to my 
problem :
It seems that the Windows key is managed by the "level3" function (see 
/etc/X11/xkbd/rules/xfree86).  
And here's what I can get when I launch X (startx) :

(EE) Failed to load module "pex5" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module "xie" (module does not exist, 0)
parse error: line 31 of level3
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Error:            Error interpreting include file "level3"
>                   Exiting
>                   Abandoning symbols file "default"
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
Error loading keymap /var/tmp/server-0.xkm

After a little bit of searching, I found that the "level3" function is 
provided by the pex5 module. But it appears that this module is no longer 
compiled in the SARGE debian distribution :
dpkg-deb --contents /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.2.1-3_i386.deb  | grep 
lib[^/] 
gives no result about xie  or pex5 module, neither can I find them in the 
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/

On a WOODY distribution, the modules are there :
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libpex5.a
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libxie.a
/usr/X11R6/lib/libPEX5.a
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXIE.a

I don't know exactly why it's not compiled anymore... 
I didn't find a solution to my problem so far except by compiling these 
modules by hand... "bof" as we say in french ;)

Thanks for your help,

thibs

Le Vendredi 15 Novembre 2002 10:18, Ingo Klöcker a écrit :
> Thibauld wrote:
> >  I just upgraded to KDE 3.0.4.
> >  I work with a qwerty keyboard despite my being french and, whereas I
> >  was
> >  able to type a  "é" with KDE 2 by typing
> >  <windows>+' e
> >  It doesn't work anymore with KDE3 (same problem with every accent I
> >  try to type). I didn't change my XF86Config-4 at all during the
> >  upgrade so I thought it might be KDE related.
> >  Is this feature disabled in KDE3 or is it rather likely to come from
> >  a problem with my X configuration  ?
>
> Probably you have to reconfigure the keyboard. Have a look at the KDE
> Control Center -> Peripherals -> Keyboard (I'm not sure whether this is
> the correct location since I'm already running KDE 3.1.).
>
> Regards,
> Ingo


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