Re: [kde-linux] kde-linux Digest, Vol 51, Issue 20

[Bogus Zaba <bogus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas Ronayne wrote:

kde-linux-request@xxxxxxx wrote:
  

first of all, i assume, that your from the US.
  
    

Yup.
  

so i think your keyboard has the US "qwerty" Layout.
  
    

Yup.
  

but.. as far as i know, there are no umlaut-keys.. 
  
    

Oh, no, none of those.
  

i refer myself to the vi-vim-cheatsheet

with the accents i can help you..
  
    

Ah, yes.
  

go to the keyboard layout option in the control center...
  
    

Yup, did that.
  

klick the "Enable keyboard layouts" 
  
    

Yup, did that too.
  

this whole widget shouldn't be greyed out anymore ..
  
    

And that.
  

In active layouts you place all the layouts for your keyboard you want.. 
In your case it would be US.. 
  
    

And that.
  

add it --> then expicitly choose it and then klick the drop-down menu 
called "Layout variant" where you can choose different stuff..
  
    

Yup, chose 'intl'
  

since i'm not from the US i only tried a bit, to be able to do what you 
want... with the "intl" layout variant i was able to write an ? and an ? and 
an ?  ;)
  
    

Yes, I can type é and ũ and pretty much everything *but* an umlaut (used 
to be colon-u). There is the sound of gnashing teeth accompanying.
  

this way you're able to write accent characters and normal characters all the 
time .. no need to switch between different variants/layouts/etc... (at least 
i think so)
  
    

You're right, no switching (but must type quote-space to not get accent, 
but, hey, better than nothing, eh).
  

sorry can't help with the umlauts and all the characters usual in the 
scandinavic countries..
  
    

Life is better, nothing to be sorry about, you've helped a great deal, 
thank you for the explanation.

Thomas
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OK, here´s how I get umlauted a, o etc. I have the British (GB) keyboard enabled with the intl variant. I know press the Control key (left or right) together with the ¨ (double quote - shift-2 on my GB keyboard) symbol. Let go the control and press your a or o or u and out pops ä ö ü. Not sure of course how this will work on a US keyboard. Presumably there is a double quote symbol somewhere on it, although I guess it is not shift-2. By the way I don know why itś the Control key that does the magic. I read about it somewhere, but my ¨compose¨ key is actually set to right-Alt which I seem to have to use to create some accented characters. Umlaut works with the control-key thing.

Bogus

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