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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    Re: [kde-linux] kde-linux Digest, Vol 51, Issue 20
From:       Anne Wilson <cannewilson () tiscali ! co ! uk>
Date:       2007-06-22 18:14:37
Message-ID: 200706221914.49450.cannewilson () tiscali ! co ! uk
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On Friday 22 June 2007 12:24:01 Bogus Zaba wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> >> OK, here ´s how I get umlauted a, o etc. I have the British (GB) keyboard
> >> 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  ¨ (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 itÅ› 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.
> >
> > 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
>  ¨Layout Variant ¨. It is only functional if one of the layouts above is
> highlighted. For the GB layout I get the following variants : Basic,
> Intl and Dvorak. 

ItÅ› 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 
> KDE version  ¨Personal Settings ¨ was called something else, possibly
>  ¨Control Centre ¨. btw if you do select this variant you cannot just hit
> (Shift-2) to get  ¨ - 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 Iĺl have to play around to see how many key modifies 
are possible using that.  Thanks

Anne

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