On Sun, 10 Apr 2022, Gianluca Interlandi wrote:
You can also combine them:
setxkbmap -option compose:lwin -option compose:menu
You can set this globally by adding the commands above to the login profiles /etc/csh.login.local and/or /etc/profile.local.
I'll try these the next time. good information - the information is on the webs but often hard to work out from the context.
before the catastrophe, I used a combination 'shift key' + 'double quote' as dead-key. not sure how that got encoded, I must have set it up.
More information is here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg/Keyboard_configuration
I am also not entirely sure that the plural of Umlaut is Umläute. According to the Duden I have, the plural of "Laut" is "Laute" (without Umlaut). But I may be mistaken.
No, I think you are right!
fjd
On Mon, 11 Apr 2022, nemo wrote:
On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 12:54 PM William Morder via tde-users users@trinitydesktop.org wrote:
On Saturday 12 February 2022 03:42:45 Felmon Davis wrote: > On Fri, 11 Feb 2022, William Morder via tde-users wrote: > >>>> I kinda need Umlauts.I wrote the above in February and got some tips about restoring Umlauts (or as I am proud to say now Umläute) but to no avail. (But thanks, Bill, and others!)
I tried through the Trinity Control Center -- after all, things had worked that way from the first installation -- but no joy (using a Q4os blend of TDE).
Frustrating. Plus I had problems with double quotes and single quotes but solved them, not sure how, mainly restoring a setting that worked before.
But months of 'ae' and 'ue' and 'oe'! dispiriting.
Decided to dive under the gui. edited /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us and dumped some key codes (diaeresis markers added to a, u and o), restarted the session and after a couple of mistrials and adjustments the Umläute are back!
I would like to change the compose key but haven't found the incantation yet.
Anyway, the trick was to dump the following into /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us: key <AD07> { [ u, U, udiaeresis, Udiaeresis ] }; key <AD09> { [ o, O, odiaeresis, Odiaeresis ] }; key <AC01> { [ a, A, adiaeresis, Adiaeresis ] }; key <AC02> { [ s, S, U00DF, NoSymbol ] };
how does the 'us' file determine the compose key, or is that set through the Control Center? it must be possible to set it here instead.
in my case the 'us' file set for:
xkb_symbols "basic" { name[Group1] = "English (US)"; ....
I have not played with .xmodmap. Felmon
> > 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 asalso > [...]
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Department of Bioengineering University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A.