Re: tilde keys in Quanta
Bas Roufs <[email protected]>
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Hello > ...Then to my amazement I see that none of the sticky tilde keys work. > (*ó* gets written as *'o* as two separate characters). What's this? > Quanta not prepared for this? .... In my opinion, you should deal with this problem not only within Quanta. Keyboard settings work throughout the whole operating system - Kubuntu 7.10 or whatever other KDE/ Linux distro. In my case, I work with Kubuntu 7.10, Gutsy Gibbon. In the following way I manage to catch more than 80% of the accented characters (tilde keys) I often use via a simple, efficient key board approach. Go to K-MENU >> System settings >> personal: 'regional language'. Now, go to 'keyboard lay-out'. Choose the board lay out you prefer: 'us English', "GB English" or any other key board lay out you like. Then, choose the following LAY-OUT VARIANT: 'intl.'. So, you will get a keyboard lay-out with the so-called 'dead keys'. As a result, you can use the following keys to accent characters: " (ë, ä, ö, ÿ, ü, ....). ' (é, á, ó, ć, ś, ....) ` (à, ù, è, ......) ~ (ñ, õ, .....) Press on the accent key you need ONE time: by example ". Than, press on another key by means of which you want to create the accented character: by example, e, a, or whatever. As a result, you will get ë, ä,, etc. If you press ", ´, ~, ...etc. two times each, you will get the ", ´, ~, ...etc. So if you want to type 'She says that ...', you simply need to press ' two times in order to generate the quote and unquote signs. A second method to get easily several kinds of accented character is enabling the compose key in System Settings->Regional & Language->Keyboard Layout->Xkb Options.You can compose ç by typing compose key + , (comma) + c. Look at the document /usr/share/X11/locale/<your locale>/Compose. Respectfully Yours, Bas Roufs. -- ************************* Viaconsensus Bas G. Roufs M.A. Van 't Hoffstraat 1 NL-3514 VT Utrecht E.: [email protected] M.: +31.6.446.835.10. T.: +31.30.785.20.40. Skype: BasRoufs Google Talk: BasRoufs Yahoo Messenger: Bas6Human ************************** _______________________________________________ Quanta mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/quanta