12 Feb
2022
12 Feb
'22
11:53 a.m.
On Saturday 12 February 2022 03:42:45 Felmon Davis wrote:
Make sure that you back up whatever are your current config files!
Elementary, of course, but that is what we always forget ... especially if we
are in haste to get back to our more important work. These computer things
are a nuisance. I am gradually returning to writing out longhand for most
stuff, and only then transferring to digital files.
Bill
On Fri, 11 Feb 2022, William Morder via tde-users
wrote:
>>>> I kinda need Umlauts.
Looking in
this folder:
/home/~/.trinity/share/config/
most likely candidates seem to be:
kxkbrc
kkbswitchrc
khotkeysrc
kglobalshortcutsrc
kdeglobals
thank you for doing my research for me! this is very helpful as also
the tips below:
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.