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PostPosted: Wed May 24, 2006 1:26 pm    Post subject: [solved]Problem with tildes in Gnome after upgrade Reply with quote

Hi all,

After upgrading my Gentoo to the latest version available, I cannot put tildes over vowels. When I type a tilde and a vowel I get ´o instead of what should be (I cannot type it!).

Any hint on this? I've been fooling arround with "locales", there's some info over the net, but nothing precise I could find.

Help is appreciated.


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PostPosted: Wed May 24, 2006 2:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This seems to be an issue with the keymap definitions. Is this a problem in the console, in X or in both?
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PostPosted: Wed May 24, 2006 2:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lx0 wrote:
This seems to be an issue with the keymap definitions. Is this a problem in the console, in X or in both?


In both
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PostPosted: Wed May 24, 2006 2:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hm, strange. Have you done the etc-update after the update?

However, to set a keyboard layout in the console, use the loadkeys command with your desired layout (check /usr/share/keymaps for possible layouts).

For X, you can set the layout with setxkbmap. Watch out, it uses a completely different syntax and other resources than loadkeys. When you are on Gnome/KDE, there are GUI apps to set the keyboard layouts, too.
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PostPosted: Wed May 24, 2006 5:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Me again. Let's see, after updating it seems to have changed everything from ISO-8859 to UTF-8. I have modified /etc/conf.d/keymaps accordingly (to read KEYMAP="-u es")

Anyway my problem is still there. When I press the tilde key, I inmediately get a ´, instead of having to press a vowel to get the ´a (again).

I'm really desperated.
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PostPosted: Wed May 24, 2006 5:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Desktop Environments.
Gnome is desktop stuff, so moved here.
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PostPosted: Wed May 24, 2006 5:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

chetoo wrote:
Anyway my problem is still there. When I press the tilde key, I inmediately get a ´, instead of having to press a vowel to get the ´a (again).


That sounds like you have the nodeadkeys on. Choose a layout/variant without it, and it should work.
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PostPosted: Wed May 24, 2006 5:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great! That solved the thing!
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