fubared keyboard, howto fix?

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings;

Fooling around in the 'control center' in the keyboard interpretation 
stuffs, I seem to have managed to get things a bit akilter.

The most noticeable gotcha now is that the first press of the  key 
immediately left of the return key, which on a US_EN keyboard 
contains the characters ' in the lowercase, and " in the shifted 
mode, is ignored unless the space bar is given a tap immediately 
after.  This is apparently a global setting as it effects mozilla et 
all too.

So what do I specifically turn off to disable such behaviour?

If I give that key a second press, I get a different character, like 
this ´ and ¨ rather than ' and ".  What I was looking for was to be 
able to type the copyright symbol and other such d7 set characters by 
using the alt key, but thats not working either, it gets me some 
kmail menu pulldowns instead.

What I'd really like is a normal keyboard when the alt key isn't 
pressed, but switches to the alt character set typified by a set bit 
d7 in the normal ascii lookup tables when the alt key, either one, is 
pressed.  If there is to be kde menu actions, qualify them with one 
or the other of the otherwise useless windows keys.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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