Re: [newbie] Diacritical marks (accents)
That is just what I need; thanks! Two questions: 1. I can set the keyboard driver through the Mandrake Control Center, but it doesn't keep on reboot. How can I make the change permanent? 2. Can the U.S. International keyboard driver make an upside down question mark and upside down exclamation point? I want to be able to properly tell you !gracias! Warren El mar, 23-07-2002 a las 22:17, Richard Holt escribió: On 23 Jul 2002 20:59:50 -0600 Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a U.S. English keyboard, but as I sometimes write in Spanish I often need letters with diacritical marks (accents). In Windows this is achived through the use of alt codes: Alt+164, for example, gives the letter n with a tilde on top (ñ). Are there similar shortcuts for Linux? Warren, I solve the problem by using what's called the US International keyboard driver... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Diacritical marks (accents)
Hi Warren, ¡Por supuesto! I usually have to experiment, but AltGr-Shift-! = ¡ I find it much simpler than swapping keyboards. saludos, Richard. On Saturday, 27 July 2002 09:31 pm, Warren Post wrote: That is just what I need; thanks! Two questions: 1. I can set the keyboard driver through the Mandrake Control Center, but it doesn't keep on reboot. How can I make the change permanent? 2. Can the U.S. International keyboard driver make an upside down question mark and upside down exclamation point? I want to be able to properly tell you !gracias! Warren El mar, 23-07-2002 a las 22:17, Richard Holt escribió: On 23 Jul 2002 20:59:50 -0600 Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a U.S. English keyboard, but as I sometimes write in Spanish I often need letters with diacritical marks (accents). In Windows this is achived through the use of alt codes: Alt+164, for example, gives the letter n with a tilde on top (ñ). Are there similar shortcuts for Linux? Warren, I solve the problem by using what's called the US International keyboard driver... -- http://es.openoffice.org, Servicios GO-TRO,ca, v/f:0265-641-0003 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Diacritical marks (accents)
Warren, On Saturday, 27 July 2002 09:31 pm, Warren Post wrote: That is just what I need; thanks! Two questions: 1. I can set the keyboard driver through the Mandrake Control Center, but it doesn't keep on reboot. How can I make the change permanent? Forgot this one. I've never had a problem getting it to stick. Mandrake Control Center / choose US Keyboard International / OK If there's an Apply button choose that first. If that doesn't work, Try the KDE Control Center: Configuration / KDE / Periferals / Keyboard or some such. Mine shows in Layout: [x] Disable keyboard layouts The greyed out Keyboard Model shows Generic 104-key PC and US English. Richard. 2. Can the U.S. International keyboard driver make an upside down question mark and upside down exclamation point? I want to be able to properly tell you !gracias! Warren El mar, 23-07-2002 a las 22:17, Richard Holt escribió: On 23 Jul 2002 20:59:50 -0600 Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a U.S. English keyboard, but as I sometimes write in Spanish I often need letters with diacritical marks (accents). In Windows this is achived through the use of alt codes: Alt+164, for example, gives the letter n with a tilde on top (ñ). Are there similar shortcuts for Linux? Warren, I solve the problem by using what's called the US International keyboard driver... -- http://es.openoffice.org, Servicios GO-TRO,ca, v/f:0265-641-0003 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Diacritical marks (accents)
I have a U.S. English keyboard, but as I sometimes write in Spanish I often need letters with diacritical marks (accents). In Windows this is achived through the use of alt codes: Alt+164, for example, gives the letter n with a tilde on top (ñ). Are there similar shortcuts for Linux? Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Diacritical marks (accents)
On Tuesday 23 July 2002 21:59, Warren Post wrote: I have a U.S. English keyboard, but as I sometimes write in Spanish I often need letters with diacritical marks (accents). In Windows this is achived through the use of alt codes: Alt+164, for example, gives the letter n with a tilde on top (ñ). Are there similar shortcuts for Linux? Warren Can't you just setup a Spanish keyboard? If you are using KDE, it's trivial to set it up and switch between 2 keyboard layouts: KDE Control center- Peripherals-Keyboard-Layout Mark your keyboards in the Additional Layouts section and once you've hit the apply button, you should see a keyboard switch icon in the taskbar. You can switch by clicking on that icon, by right clicking on it, or by hitting alt+ctrl+k. Once you have set this up and are used to alt+ctrl+k to cycle through the keyboard layouts (I use U.S., Icelandic and Norwegian), you'll not want to type the Alt+164 keystrokes again :-) I hope this solves your problem, Narfi. ps. Of course, if you're not using KDE, then I'm afraid I can't help you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Diacritical marks (accents)
On 23 Jul 2002 20:59:50 -0600 Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a U.S. English keyboard, but as I sometimes write in Spanish I often need letters with diacritical marks (accents). In Windows this is achived through the use of alt codes: Alt+164, for example, gives the letter n with a tilde on top (ñ). Are there similar shortcuts for Linux? Warren, I solve the problem by using what's called the US International keyboard driver. Mandrake offers the choice on installation. It is an English keyboard layout that uses a so-called dead-key to allow all the diacritical marks for Spanish and I'm sure for several other languages. áéíóúñ ü The ' apostrophe key is the dead-key. Press ' key once then a yields á. The ñ is done by pressing the tilde key once then the n thus a ñ. On mine it's a shift-~ then an n. Easier said than done. At least with this you don't have to remember where all the keys moved to when switching from the regular English driver to the Spanish driver. I haven't used the spanish keyboard driver for over ten years. saludos, Richard. Warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
