On Thu 09 Jun 2016 at 10:56:44 (-0600), Levi Darrell wrote: > I am using the lxde desktop environment with xorg. I have installed the > "Keyboard Layout Handler" applet, and I am attempting to use the French and > Latin American keyboard layouts. Single-keystroke characters, such as ñ οr > ç work just fine, but I am having difficulty inputting characters which > require multiple keystrokes, such as á, í, ú, ó, ö, ï, ü, ê, â, î, ô, û, > etc. > > When everything is working properly, these characters can be produced > without the use of a Compose or AltGr key. They are composed of a > two-keystroke combination of the accent mark--^, ¨; ´, etc.-- and the > letter. Strangely, these keystroke combinations work just fine in > LibreOffice Writer, but when I try to input them into a web browser or > terminal shell emulator they look like this instead: ´i, ´e, ´u, ´a, ´o, > ^e, ^o, ^a, ^u, etc. > > How can I get these keyboard layouts to function properly?
I would have thought that you would put XKBLAYOUT="fr,latam" in your /etc/default/keyboard which gives you deadkeys by default. That's for X itself (I know nothing about LXDE) but also the VCs. dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration will update the VC keyboards. I always run dpkg-reconfigure console-setup at the same time because I sometimes forget which configures what. HOWEVER, only run those two commands when X isn't running. At all. Not in a VC that you reached with Ctrl + Alt + F[1-6]. If X is running, all sorts of weirdnesses result. This might be the answer to your other posting. Cheers, David.