19 Jun
2021
19 Jun
'21
2:19 a.m.
Dear TDE users,
I just installed TDE on openSUSE Leap 15.2 and I really like it. Thank you
so much!
I have a question about special keyboard characters such as the german
Umlaute ä, ö, ü or the italian/french accents. Normally in Linux you can
hold down the key <Shift> and then press <Ctrl>, which sets you into
"Compose mode". Then, you can press for example the high quotes " and then
a voyel like a, o, u and they are displayed with the dots on top. This is
not working in openSUSE Leap 15.2 with TDE (same with LXDE). It just
prints '"a'. In past versions, I had to set the variable QT_IM_MODULE to
xim, but in openSUSE Leap 15.2 it is already set to xim and I still cannot
compose Umlaute or accents.
If anybody has any ideas or has figured it out, please let me know.
Thanks in advance!
Gianluca
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Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca(a)u.washington.edu
+1 (206) 685 4435
http://gianluca.today/
Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Bioengineering
at the University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A.
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19 Jun
19 Jun
7:16 a.m.
On Saturday 19 June 2021 04.19:00 Gianluca Interlandi wrote:
I have a question about special keyboard characters
such as the german
Umlaute ä, ö, ü or the italian/french accents. Normally in Linux you can
hold down the key <Shift> and then press <Ctrl>, which sets you into
"Compose mode". Then, you can press for example the high quotes " and
then
a voyel like a, o, u and they are displayed with the dots on top. This is
not working in openSUSE Leap 15.2 with TDE (same with LXDE). It just
prints '"a'. In past versions, I had to set the variable QT_IM_MODULE to
xim, but in openSUSE Leap 15.2 it is already set to xim and I still cannot
compose Umlaute or accents.
If anybody has any ideas or has figured it out, please let me know.
Thanks in advance!
Gianluca
Hi Gianliuca,
What's your keyboard settings in TDE?
Trinity Control Center -> Regional & accessibility -> Keyboard Layout
There, tick the "Enable Keyboard Layouts" and add your perfered keyboard to
the list.
I use the swiss keyboard with swiss french layout, that does everything you
want based on a QWERTZ layout, there is an italian keyboard too, and many
others. And you can have more than one keyboard layout and switch from
kicker.
I hope this helps.
Thierry
7:45 a.m.
Hello,
The Compose key is not set up by default. If I remember correctly, it can be configured
through the appropriate setting through the third tab of the Keyboard Layout section of
Trinity Control Centre (where misc. Xkb settings are stored), where you should alsobchoose
the keyboard key/combination which activates Compose.
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Mavridis Philippe
12:39 p.m.
On Sat, 19 Jun 2021 07:45:22 +0000 (UTC)
Mavridis Philippe <mavridisf(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
The Compose key is not set up by default. If I remember correctly, it can be configured
through the appropriate setting through the third tab of the Keyboard Layout section of
Trinity Control Centre (where misc. Xkb settings are stored), where you should alsobchoose
the keyboard key/combination which activates Compose.
You can also activate it by running setxkbmap from the command line or in a script.
E. Liddell
23 Jun
23 Jun
10:22 p.m.
On Sat, 19 Jun 2021, E. Liddell wrote:
On Sat, 19 Jun 2021 07:45:22 +0000 (UTC)
Mavridis Philippe <mavridisf(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks! I can set the Compose key to rctrl using:
setxkbmap -option compose:rctrl
I have two questions:
1) Is there a script that is read upon TDE startup where I can add this
line to?
2) Although this allows me now to use Umlaute and accents, it is still not
quite the same as in older versions (like up to openSUSE 13.2) where I had
to press rshift and then while keeping it pressed I had to press rctrl to
enter compose mode. In older versions of openSUSE it looks like the
compose key was set at bootup even before the X server would start. The
file /etc/sysconfig/keyboard contained in older versions the line:
COMPOSETABLE="clear latin1.add"
This is now missing from the same file in openSUSE 15.2. Even after adding
it and rebooting, I still cannot use compose (except with setxkbmap). I
also tried with
COMPOSETABLE="clear shiftctrl latin1.add"
and then I copied
/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/include/compose.shiftctrl
from an older installation, but Compose still does not work (except with
setxkbmap as above).
If anyone has any hint or experience with how to map the compose key
system-wide, please let me know.
Thanks!
Gianluca
-----------------------------------------------------
Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca(a)u.washington.edu
+1 (206) 685 4435
http://gianluca.today/
Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Bioengineering
at the University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A.
-----------------------------------------------------
Hello,
The Compose key is not set up by default. If I remember correctly, it
can be configured through the appropriate setting through the third tab
of the Keyboard Layout section of Trinity Control Centre (where misc.
Xkb settings are stored), where you should alsobchoose the keyboard
key/combination which activates Compose.
You can also activate it by running setxkbmap from the command line or
in a script.
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