12 Feb
2022
12 Feb
'22
11:42 a.m.
On Fri, 11 Feb 2022, William Morder via tde-users wrote:
yes, still am.
> Somewhere buried in your system, there must be a configuration file, a
> text file, probably ending in -rc, and if so, there is probably also a
> recent backup of that file, from before mistakes were made, and whoever
> or whatever messed it up.
thank you for doing my research for me! this is very helpful as also
the tips below:
I kinda need Umlauts.
I expect that you have already explored the keyboard mapping options in
Trinity Control Center: TCC / Regional & Accessibility / Keyboard Layout
/ Xkb Options. > Maybe it is kept in }...] /home/~/.trinity,
but there ought to be a record
> of your previous settings.
It's probably in your home folder, in that .trinity folder, because the other
places ought to get changed on a new installation.
I did a little searching myself, but I don't have the same need for umlauts in
writing mostly English here, so I don't have the same configuration, which
makes it hard for me to search for what doesn't exist in my own system.
Looking in this folder:
/home/~/.trinity/share/config/
most likely candidates seem to be:
kxkbrc
kkbswitchrc
khotkeysrc
kglobalshortcutsrc
kdeglobals
Some of these, on my system, have no backup versions; others have several
backups from when things got changed.
I think I might tinker and pull over just those config files. the
other laptop is running TDE.
will search for the proper config files. got another laptop here, may
have to switch to it as I´m on the road and lack time also for
tinkering.
If you have Trinity installed on the laptop, then a brute force option would
be just to copy your configuration files to the other system. But that seems
too much like using a hammer to make minor fine-tuning adjustments; you might
only mess things up more. We ought to have asked this question at the start, but
better late than never:
Do you experience this problem system-wide, or only with certain programs?
e.g., your usual keystrokes work okay to create umlauts in text files, etc.,
but not in your Office program? What comes through in your email is messy,
but that could be on my end. (I get a lot of ? characters in your emails;
and just by pasting that in, my keyboard behaves now like I am typing in
Hebrew, right to left.)
I thought I had checked this out but realize I had only FN-ed to a
full-screen terminal window. there the problem is present too.
but now in OpenOffice I see I have the double quotes. when I do a
single quote it first quickly produces ´ but then becomes a regular
single quote. the ´compose key´ produces á, ú, etc, no Umlauts.
there is clearly something going on in the terminals. I use Console
also for these mails (using Alpine); the accented vowels show up in
Gmail (under Brave Browser). I am not sure what the full-screen
terminal is called.
Happy hunting!
soon. gotta do some work right now though!
this has been a help though as it helps localized problems.
but I think I´ll just pull over the configs from the other laptop -
two laptops are on my desk, an Asus (problem child) and an Acer which
I will use as source of configs.
f.
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Felmon Davis
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