Russian keyboard Control+ and Alternate+ key combination

[Andriy Rysin]

BTW, I would advice you against using !nonlatin and !old_layotus as it 
may not be supported in next versions of kde (and probably it's not 
supported in gnome)

Andriy

surlyc at alaska.net wrote:
> Hola Andriy:
>
> I think that your solution would have worked
> if KDE had permitted me to select "Include
> Latin Group".  However, this selection remained
> grayed-out in the keyboard layout configuration
> no matter what I tried.  However, your suggestion
> helped lead me to the solution which was to edit
> the file xfree86 in /etc/X11/xkb/rules/.  There
> are three lines near the top of this file that
> are commented and start with !nonlatin followed
> by abbreviations for various nonlatin-alphabet
> languages.  The file contains instructions to
> uncomment the !nonlatin lines when using nonlatin
> keyboards.
>
> This solution is a little convoluted and I suspect
> that if I could have activated the option
> you suggested it would have done what I needed.
> Can you suggest what I should do so that I can
> have available the KDE Control Center option
> to include the latin group?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Alex
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Andriy Rysin <arysin at myrealbox.com>
> Date: Sunday, February 26, 2006 6:33 am
> Subject: Re: [kde] Russian keyboard Control+ and Alternate+ key combination
>
>   
>> Check "Include Latin Group" option in keyboard layout configuration.
>> Let me know if that helps.
>>
>> Andriy
>>
>> surlyc at alaska.net wrote:
>>     
>>> I am using SuSE 10.0 with KDE 3.4.2. I have 3 KDE keyboards set 
>>>       
>> up: Russian, English, and Spanish.
>>     
>>> The Russian keyboard does not have the function of the Control or 
>>>       
>> Alternate keys. For example, there is no Ctrl key combination that 
>> actuates bolding or italics in a word processor and there is no Alt 
>> key combination that activates menus (e.g., File or Edit menus).  
>> These key combinations work fine with the KDE English and Spanish 
>> keyboards.>
>>     
>>> Can you advise me regarding what my problem might be and how to 
>>>       
>> solve it?
>>     
>>> Thank you for your attention.
>>>
>>> Alex
>>>
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