Cannot use X us_intl dead keys in KDE applications

squatrem · n00b Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 1 Location: Quebec, Canada

Until yesterday, I was a very happy gentoo user with my french keyboard, but I broke it and had to replace it with an american one.. I m now living a nightmare !

As I need to write in french (with accents), here is my new X configuration:

toxicated · n00b Joined: 28 Mar 2003 Posts: 27 Location: Sweden

Same here, Haven't found any solution. Fairly irritating to move over to random-non-qt-input and make the é appear. Have you found any solution?

red-wolf76 · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 1:47 am Post subject:

Under KDE (I've got 3.5 on one box, so YMMV) use french (basic) as your keyboard locale (access it through the KDE control panel).

I used to have "nodeadkeys" activated for my German keyboard layout and couldn't for the life of me use accented Characters. Bûŧ Nów Ì'm bâck with ã vèñgéàñcê! :lol:

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toxicated · n00b Joined: 28 Mar 2003 Posts: 27 Location: Sweden

It didn't help. I tried changing to basic french, basic swedish back and forth with no luck. I always could enter ëã.. in urxvt and firefox, but never in qt/kde, it just made my keyboard go french which i didn't like very much ;) (I use sv_dvorak, an xmodmap file with an alternative swedish dvorak layout)

red-wolf76 · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 11:34 am Post subject:

Ah sorry, toxicated, I didn't pay attention to that you were swedish. The root poster needed a french keyboard.

Maybe it's your Dvorak layout that's doing it. What's with the Control panel in KDE? Can't you see which layout you're using there? I guess you're pretty much used to typing on it, so switching to QWERTZ is not an option, is it?

Cheers and good luck for the time being. I have Gnome on this box, but when my gf is done on hers, I'll try to figure out what you can do, even though I don't have a Dvorak-Handy, I fiddle about with the settings in KDE 3.5.

What version of KDE are you using?
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toxicated · n00b Joined: 28 Mar 2003 Posts: 27 Location: Sweden

My KDE version is 3.4.1.

QT applications couldn't understand deadkeys anytime, not when using french, not when using swedish, and not when using my xmodmap dvorak-file.

Might be good to mention that I'm using UTF-8 locales, but that shouldn't matter right?

red-wolf76 · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:01 pm Post subject:

Could be it. I'm not using them yet... Have you tried reverting to a non-UTF-8 charmap and userfont?
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toxicated · n00b Joined: 28 Mar 2003 Posts: 27 Location: Sweden

No affect =(.

janosh · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 9:04 pm Post subject:

Sorry for waking an old post, but I'm having the same problem in my kde 3.5.5
I can use dead keys like ^ + o to make ô in firefox, and other non kde apps.

But if I try the same in KEdit, it doesn't print the dead key, so it seems like it is accepting the dead key, but then it just prints a regular o.

I don't know how to debug this problem further, it used to work just fine. But after a hard drive crash before Christmas, I had to reinstall Gentoo, and it's been like this ever since :(

Any help would be appreciated

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2dimm · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:18 pm Post subject:

In the hope that this may be of use...

This same problem had been annoying me for a while until just now i deleted all content of /etc/env.d/02locale in order to start from scratch. I did a quick env-update && source /etc/profile but still got all the old values when entering $ locale in the terminal so rebooted. At $ locale i now get all values as posix but i now have all deadkeys available.

Until such time as i find some other function dependant on locales is broken or someone explains what the correct/elegant solution is i shall leave it as it is! (actually thatś a lie - I shall probably play around with it until it breaks again!)

(I have an apple usb keyboard. Kcontrol shows 'setxkbmap -model evdev -layout us -variant intl'. Using xorg-x11-7.2 & KDE 3.5.6)

janosh · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:54 pm Post subject:

Well, I think I found a sollution.
My LC_ALL variable was set to nb_NO.utf8, but Xorg doesn't understand that value. I got a lot of "Qt: locale not supported by X server" in my xorg logs.

I found this page: http://l10n.kde.org/tools/kartouche/doc.php, and a bit down the page, there is som info about utf-8 and X servers.

They say that it's possible to add aliases to the X server, so X understands that nb_NO.utf8 is the same as nb_NO.UTF-8, but I could not make it work.
So in the end, i just changed my LC_ALL variable to nb_NO.UTF-8 and now my deadkeys just work :)

You should probably check that you have a matching entry for your LANG/LC_* variable in the /usr/share/X11/locale/locale.dir,
and if there are no matching entries, you should add them. (Thou I don't know how to do that)

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