Re: International Characters from a US Keyboard?

2004-08-27 Thread Silvan
On Thursday 26 August 2004 12:29 am, David Wright wrote: > French. Is there a way to produce the standard accented characters (at > least in Gnome applications) using keyboard combinations? > I'm very tired of mousing up to the little gnome character pallet > utility every few words when write a

Re: International Characters from a US Keyboard?

2004-08-26 Thread Christian Riedel
Hi David, I had a similar problem when I was switching to gnome 2.6. Before I had set up the keyboard to produce German Umlauts via xmodmap, but for some reason my /etc/X11/xmodmap has not been read any longer. So I adapted the xkb configuration do do the stuff: In /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc I crea

Re: International Characters from a US Keyboard?

2004-08-26 Thread Roy Pluschke
On August 26, 2004 00:21, David Wright wrote: > Thanks for the tip! It works. > > Looking at various web pages on xmodmap, it even looks possible, via a > slightly more complex syntax, to define a compose key, so that all the > Windows key combinations for all the Latin-1 accented characters could

Re: Re: International Characters from a US Keyboard?

2004-08-26 Thread David Wright
Thanks for the tip! It works. Looking at various web pages on xmodmap, it even looks possible, via a slightly more complex syntax, to define a compose key, so that all the Windows key combinations for all the Latin-1 accented characters could be reproduced. Is there some reason the Debian standard

Re: International Characters from a US Keyboard?

2004-08-25 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:29:00PM -0700, David Wright wrote: > I run the Gnome session manager on a Debian sid machine attached to a US > keyboard. When I am writing in English, which is most of the time, > that's fine. But I also often write in German and occasionally in > French. Is there a way

International Characters from a US Keyboard?

2004-08-25 Thread David Wright
I run the Gnome session manager on a Debian sid machine attached to a US keyboard. When I am writing in English, which is most of the time, that's fine. But I also often write in German and occasionally in French. Is there a way to produce the standard accented characters (at least in Gnome applica