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On Friday 22 June 2007 12:24:01 Bogus Zaba wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> >> OK, here=C2=B4s how I get umlauted a, o etc. I have the British (GB) k=
eyboard
> >> enabled with the intl variant.
> >
> > What is this intl variant?  How/where did you set it up?
> >
> >> I know press the Control key (left or
> >> right) together with the =C2=A8 (double quote - shift-2 on my GB keybo=
ard)
> >> symbol. Let go the control and press your a or o or u and out pops =C3=
=A4 =C3=B6
> >> =C3=BC. Not sure of course how this will work on a US keyboard. Presum=
ably
> >> there is a double quote symbol somewhere on it, although I guess it is
> >> not shift-2. By the way I don know why it=C5=9B the Control key that d=
oes the
> >> magic. I read about it somewhere, but my =C2=A8compose=C2=A8 key is ac=
tually set
> >> to right-Alt which I seem to have to use to create some accented
> >> characters. Umlaut works with the control-key thing.
> >
> > It doesn't work here, but I have the straightforward GB keyboard.  I'd =
be
> > interest to hear more.
> >
> > Anne
> >
> You pick the variant of the keyboard layout in KMenu > Personal Settings
>
>  > Regional & Accessibility > Keybaord Layout. The top tab in this form
>
> has a long list of national keyboard layouts on the left and the usual
> list of th eones you want to use on the right with buttons to move them
> around. Underneath the right hand list is a drop down box labelled
> =C2=A8Layout Variant=C2=A8. It is only functional if one of the layouts a=
bove is
> highlighted. For the GB layout I get the following variants : Basic,
> Intl and Dvorak.=20

It=C5=9B amazing how often we fail to see something like that - the button,=
 I mean.

> All this is with Suse 10.1 and KDE 3.5.1. In my previos=20
> KDE version =C2=A8Personal Settings=C2=A8 was called something else, poss=
ibly
> =C2=A8Control Centre=C2=A8. btw if you do select this variant you cannot =
just hit
> (Shift-2) to get =C2=A8 - you have to hit it twice, because first time it
> thinks you are building up an umlauted character. Also my previous post
> which said that Control needs to be pressed when pressing the accent was
> rubbish - it works whether Control is pressed or not, so obviously
> easier to do it without.
>
Interesting indeed.  Now I=C4=BAl have to play around to see how many key m=
odifies=20
are possible using that.  Thanks

Anne

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