[tde-users] Umlauts fixed! Was: lost double quote mark

On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 12:54 PM William Morder via tde-users < users(a)trinitydesktop.org&gt; wrote: 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