Accent marks

[Basil Fowler]

This is not a KDE matter, rather an XFree matter.  You can edit you own 
keyboard layout to use the Alt-Gr and Shift-Alt-Gr to provide the characters 
that you want.  I use a French keyboard with customised extensions.

First look in your XF86Config file. In my SuSE 8.0 setup it is in the /etc/X11 
directory.  Note which layout is used.  Then go to /etc/X11/xkb/symbols and 
search out the corresponding file.  MAKE A BACKUP.  You can then edit the 
keyboard file to do what you want.  READ THE DOCUMENTATION before you start.

Once properly edited, restart X and you will have your new custom keyboard. 

Hope this helps

Basil


On Wednesday 07 May 2003 18:15, Tako Schotanus wrote:
> 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
> > > italian
> > > ones. Thanks,
> > >
> > > David
> > >
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