On Sun, 10 Apr 2022, William Morder via tde-users wrote:
On Sunday 10 April 2022 15:17:49 nemo wrote:
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 ] };
So, let me get this straight ...
What started as a joke (i.e., use a diaeresis instead of an umlaut) actually turned out to be correct? How weird is that?!
even you can't believe how praeternaturally insightful you are!
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.
us, meaning US for locale?
the filename is not capitalized
/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us
in my case the 'us' file set for:
xkb_symbols "basic" {
name[Group1] = "English (US)"; ....
I have not played with .xmodmap.
Felmon
Didn't think of xkb, but that makes sense.
The problem with single and double quotes has me stumped, but I don't use your keyboard setup.
I fixed that.
I doubt that this could be an issue; however, I did have some problems getting Q4OS to work as I wanted. In particular, as I recall, I could not set my password using "special characters" -- although I imagine it was possible to change that later, if I had got more into it. It is one of those kinds of snags that happen more often with preconfigured stuff, such as Q4OS. I didn't stay long with Q4OS, but went straight for Debian and then Devuan.
Just throwing it out there for consideration.
spent yrs with Devuan, no problem. I think I threw Q4OS on for no particular reason and never bothered to change it nor do any ambitious configuration - no incentive given my usage.
guess the main problems of configuration I've had are with printing and with, well, printing. works now. then suddenly a month or so ago, the Umlaut issue. also tricking my way past a hotel portal.
I have MX on another machine. too 'busy' for me though configures itself quite handily.
thank you for the help and encouragement!
f.