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bergo
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 Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:05 pm Post subject: KDE and special/regional letters. |
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Hi,
I have currently installed a very basic KDE (emerge kdebase-startkde) on my laptop and till now I discovered one big disadvantage. I don't know how to use right alt as a special key that enables regional letters. On my desktop the right alt is marked as an ISO switch (so everything is working) but on laptop I have no idea how to tell KDE that it should treat right als as an iso switch.
Any ideas?
Xorg is the latest stable.
KDE is the lates stable installed by emerge kdebase-startkde
In xorg.conf the keyboard driver is "kbd"
Regards.
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bergo
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OK, I'm going to emerhe kxkb and check it out - maybe it will help.
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TNorthover
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I thought that was an X11 issue, not kde. Try adding:
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to the keyboard section of xorg.conf.
Looking slightly more deeply, it looks like the underlying program to do this on the fly is setxkbmap. The KDE UI for this program is in the control center under "keyboard layout", which does seem to be in kxkb.
I'm not sure how much of kde you've got installed, but I'd suggest running kcontrol and filtering by keyboard after emerging kxkb. It looks like the compose things are under "xkb options". |
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