On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:44:49 -0400, Gracia M. Littauer wrote: > >> What locale is set and which keyboard layout do you use? Do you use >> Gnome or KDE? > > America,qwerty, kde, Blood type ab+
North or South America? Was that supposed to be funny? If you need accents more than once you have several options: a) change your keyboard layout to US-International, ? is on <AltGr> + <e> b) define a compose key (maybe Suse predefined <AltGr>+<Shift>?) and hold <Compose> and enter <e><'> Both can be easily defined with kxkb (hit <Alt>+<F2> and enter kxkb). http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase/kxkb/index.html The other option is c) use Unicode: *inside Scribus enter <F12><0><0><e><9> *in Gnome applications and Firefox hold <Ctrl> and <Shift> and enter <u><e><9> (elder Gnome version used <Ctrl><Shift>+4 digit hex code) HTH, Helge
