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List:       mandrake-expert
Subject:    Re: [expert] spanish keyboard layout not printing accents.
From:       Juan Luis Baptiste <jbaptiste () cable ! net ! co>
Date:       2005-03-31 14:58:38
Message-ID: 200503310958.38752.jbaptiste () cable ! net ! co
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Hi Patricia,

On Thursday 31 March 2005 06:39, Patricia Fraser wrote:
> Oh, *dang*, Juan Luis,
>
> > Nothing, it's the same too.
>
> I think it's time to delve behind the gui... what version of xorg are
> you running? Mine is 6.8.2 from cooker. I haven't quite fathomed yet
> which package holds setxkbmap, but there are lots of things involved in
> the kbmap; if you take a look at man setxkbmap, you'll see what sort of
> complexity there is! The xkbmap environment is compiled when X is
> started, as far as I can see, according to about 5 different configs;
> it should be possible to tinker a little with those and get your accent
> key back. I *think* that it's possible that the -compat part of the
> directive might need looking into; or else the "basic" variant of the
> es layout is missing something.
>
> Need some input here from someone who actually understands the rules
> file layout!
>
> Cheers...

I think the problem isn't at the xorg level as the accents *do* work in at 
least GTK apps (haven't tried others though), even when running them in KDE 
and having switched keyboard layout with kxkb. The problem is only with 
qt/KDE apps.

Cheers,
-- 
Juan Luis Baptiste
http://www.merlinux.org
http://knetworkconf.sf.net

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