Accent marks

[Tako Schotanus]

Is there no other way? Because I positively hate having to use "dead
keys" because they get on my nerves while typing code. Of course you
could set several different keyboard layouts and switch between them but
I'd rather prefer something like the way MS Word handles this: holding
down CTRL while pressing ^ or ' and then a letter will temporarily turn
the ^ or ' into a "dead key". Does something like that exist for KDE?

Cheers,
 -Tako

On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 15:21, eimann at informatik.uni-bonn.de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I can only discuss the case getting French accents on a German keyboard...
> maybe it helps you anyway... To get French accents on a German keyboard, I
> had to choose a keyboad layout that uses"dead keys". These dead keys are
> the various accent keys such as '^'. If you press such a key, nothing
> happens until you press another key, which, in case it's appropriate, will
> appear modified on the screen (ê for the sequence "^e", for instance).
> There should be an alternative keyboard layout to the one you are
> currently using that uses deadkeys, too...
> 
> Cheers,
> Raimund
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> > How do you enter accent marks when typing in KDE apps? Specifically
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> > David
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