Gustavo Viola wrote:
> I have tried that, switched a number of keyboards (including the Swedish you
> mentioned, and Western European, which would be appropriate for my using),
> restarted KDE a few times, but it did not work at all. How was the keyboard
> setup supposed to be activated? Did I do anything wrong?
>
> On another note: I believe this matter could be addressed at a lower level,
> from the console itself; if I use the kbdconfig utility, I can choose an
> appropriate keyboard, as Swedish, Swedish latin, U.S., French... I have
> tried all of them, but none worked for me. What I want to do is to be able
> to type " ´+ a " and " á " comes out, or " , + c " to get "ç" , " ` + a "
> for "à" (I am using Win98 at work now, that is the reason why I can type
> such characters at all)... does anyone know if I can add keyboard types to
> the kbdconfig utility? Or changing keymaps? Any
> Portuguese/Spanish/French/Italian/Swedish/Any Language -speaking people who
> have dealt with a similar issue?
>
> /Gustavo Viola ß^»
> ---------------------------------------------------
> He does the work of 3 Men...Moe, Larry & Curly.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: stephan schutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 2:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] International Keybard Setup; KDE and Gnome
>
> > If you use KDE there is a tool there that will allow you to swich keyboard
> > mapps. International... something. I use it to type in swedish å,ä,ö, more
> > precicely. If you know how to type and do not have to look at the keys all
> > the time you can just type on, otherwise you will have to lable some keys.
> >
> > Stephan
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Gustavo Viola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 1:12 PM
> > Subject: [newbie] International Keybard Setup; KDE and Gnome
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > 1) I frequently need to type special Latin characters such as ó, à, ç
> etc.;
> > I have a Microsoft Natural Keyboard (not a bad piece of hardware from a
> > software mammoth) and, under Windows 98, I type ",c" to get "ç", " ´a" to
> > get "á" and so on. I haven´t been able to set that up under Linux yet.
> Can
> > anyone help?
> >
> > 2) I haven´t found a good Mandrake FAQ yet; if I had, I would probably
> know
> > how to switch from KDE to Gnome. Whenever I "startx" I go to KDE, but
> would
> > like to see Gnome for a change. How can I?
> >
> > Thanks a lot, and I apologize if these questions have been answered
> > previously.
> >
> > /Gustavo Viola ß^»
> > ---------------------------------------------------
> > Put knot yore trussed inn spel chequers
> >
> >
> >
Hi, Gustavo,
Try these links. I hope you will find something helpful. Here you gonna find a
good script (./acentos). It does almost all the job and it is painless to work
out.
http://jefferson.computers.webjump.com/
And here you will find some documents that may help around changing files and
doing all the job by hand. This is the site of the channel #linux_redhat (at
the Brasnet server). The main page is http://users.linsnet.br/linuxall/ and the
page where you can find the tutorial that teaches how to use the "dead keys" is
http://users.linsnet.br/linuxall/tutorial/tutacentos.htm
So, have fun. The last one is a brazilian site. So, it is written is
portuguese.
There is one more thing I d like to talk about. We have been writing in
portuguese/english and this list is supposed to use english as its primary
language. So, I think we should keep writing in english and if we want, write
in portuguese just between us brazilians or portuguese speakers/writers outside
the list. Anyway it was a good idea because called attention to one good point;
there is an increasing number of brazilians using Mandrake (It is good to know
I am not just one of a few using Mandrake in Brazil). I hope next releases will
come with a keyboard map for brazilian keyboards.
best regards,
Rodrigo
