11 Apr
2022
11 Apr
'22
5:07 a.m.
Hi Felmon,
Sorry, I haven't followed the entire thread. This is how I solved the
problem with Umlaute. For the current running session just type in a
terminal:
setxkbmap -option compose:lwin
This maps the left winkey to "compose". If you want the right control key
to be compose, then you can set:
setxkbmap -option compose:rctrl
or the menu key:
setxkbmap -option compose:menu
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.
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.
Gianluca
On Mon, 11 Apr 2022, nemo wrote:
On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 12:54 PM William Morder via
tde-users <users(a)trinitydesktop.org>
wrote:
On Saturday 12 February 2022 03:42:45 Felmon Davis wrote:
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Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca(a)u.washington.edu
+1 (206) 685 4435
http://gianluca.today/
Department of Bioengineering
University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A.
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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 as also
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