Hello, everyone. My keyboard is an MS Natural Keyboard Pro, bought locally here in Ireland. Since I haven't seen a UK keyboard for a while, I couldn't swear to it, but the layout seems identical. It is certainly very different to the US ones I've been using for a while. The Euro symbol is the third symbol on the '4' key, and if I press CTRL-ALT-4 the euro pops up, voila € (the preceeding symbol should be a euro). This keyboard also has the AltGr to the right of the spacebar. I am running SuSE 7.3 with very little modification, and certainly nothing that should affect this issue. I carried out the instructions from the SDB, but it made no difference in KDE or on the console. That's why I was wondering if this was one of those rare things that would require a reboot or a re-init, boith of which I'm loathe to do as the test machine is my home file server. Maybe I'll fire up the laptop and try it on that. I tried out the various combinations of ALT, SHIFT, CTRL, AltGr. However, since the keyboard has a euro symbol on it, I'm wondering if changing the Xmodmap (as also suggested) to use the Ctrl-Alt-4 combination might be a better choice anyway. While I'm at it, I should probably chage KDE's default money symbol to the euro instead of IR£. Yup, I think I'll try this out on the laptop tomorrow and see if a reboot cures it, or if it is working on the laptop already. Bye for now, Stuart. -----Original Message----- From: wolfi [mailto:wolfi_z@yahoo.com] Sent: 03 January 2002 12:49 To: SuSE List Subject: RE: [SLE] Slightly baffled with the Euro symbol On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 11:47, Stuart Powell wrote:
Hello.
Being in Ireland, I thought I ought to give this a whirl, and it doesn't work for me either. I also seem to have found the articles wolfi referred to (....)
Hi Stuart, On the German keyboard we have two different Alt-buttons. This makes some things easier, I seem to notice :-) The left one is just Alt, whereas the right one is AltGr, which I read as Alt-Griechisch [and that's German for Old-Greek :-)]. It does offer you some greek letters, e.g. AltGr-M is µ, AltGr-D is ð ... and some danish as well: AltGr-A being æ and AltGr-O being ø ... Ok, back to topic :-) What keyboard layout do you have in Ireland? I only know the American layout besides the German and therefore can't tell you about other keyboards ... And which SuSE version are you running? IIRC the € Euro was supported no earlier than 7.2 and I did not turn it to work on my box before 7.3 - and I wouldn't have it running even today if my wife hadn't protested :-)) Did you try Ctrl-Alt-E ? Cheers .... Wolfi ============================================= mailto:wolfi_z@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com