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
Re: [newbie] International Keybard Setup; KDE and Gnome
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
Re: [newbie] International Keybard Setup; KDE and Gnome
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, you 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? Did you set your language files up? I know that's a silly question, but if you haven't, then it obviously won't work. :-)
Re: [newbie] International Keybard Setup; KDE and Gnome
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
Re: [newbie] International Keybard Setup; KDE and Gnome
I found that putting the word GNOME in /etc/sysconfig/desktop worked for me. Try this from root. vi /etc/sysconfig/desktop i (for insert mode) GNOME :wq -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, September 09, 1999 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] International Keybard Setup; KDE and Gnome On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, you wrote: 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? Click on the "K" on the upper left or lower left (depending on whether you have the bottom bar extended or not.) Then System | "Desktop Switching Tool" to switch to Gnome. Although you haven't asked, there's a similar feature in Gnome. Click on the Gnome "foot" and then click on "KDE Utils" and the rest is the same as above. John
[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
