On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 05:01:57PM -0700, Byron Clark wrote: > On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 12:46:46PM -0800, Gary Thornock wrote: > > I'm trying to configure a laptop to use multiple keyboard layouts so > > I can type in English (without dead keys -- dead keys get in the way > > when I'm writing code!) and Spanish (which requires dead keys). > > > > So far, I've got this in /etc/X11/xorg.conf: > > > > Option "XkbLayout" "us,us_intl" > > Option "XkbOptions" "grp:ctrls_toggle" > > > > and that seems to work, except for one thing: I can't get the Spanish > > inverted punctuation to show up. On the us_intl keyboard, that is > > produced using the right ALT key together with the normal > > punctuation. > > >From the testing I've done so far, it appears that something in KDE > > is trapping the ALT key combinations, so the Spanish punctuation > > doesn't work. > > I usually use 'setxkbmap es' from a terminal to switch to a spanish > keyboard layout and then 'setxkbmap us' to switch back to a US keyboard > layout.
probably an obvious comment, but it'd probably be easiest to alias those two commands... > > -- > --------------------------------+----------------------------------- > Byron Clark | http://www.byronandannie.net > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bits.byronandannie.net > --------------------------------+----------------------------------- > GnuPG Fingerprint: 0365 6979 6C3E BC0C 56C0 FB7F 12B3 75DD 042B EA68 > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Erin Sharmahd [EMAIL PROTECTED] CS Student Unix Users Group PGP Fingerprint: F352 FF41 EA0A 67E4 566B 3B5B E65A D3DC 083E 9336
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