Re: [SLE] problem - strange keyboard behavior

On 10/26/2005 12:10 PM, Istvan Gabor wrote:

Shriramana Sharma wrote:

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I donno about KDE 3.3 on SUSE 9.2 - but on KDE 3.43 and SUSE 10.0 I have KDE Control Center > Regional & Accessibility > Keyboard where I can check this:

Is the keyboard variant of the US English keyboard set to "international" ["intl"]? If yes, change it to "basic". Or just use this command at the Alt + F2 (Run Command) dialog:

setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us -variant basic

and see if it works.

Shriramana Sharma.

Dear Shriramana:

Thank you for the quick reply. I've checked the setting you mentioned and the layout is set to 'international' (intl) variant for U.S. English (us) keyboard layout. However there is no other option to choose, there is no 'basic option', only international in the pulldown menu. I used the command line version (setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us -variant basic) in the console window and it seems that works Is this the commandline specified in the keyboard layout setup page? If not, make that change and you should be rid of the deadkeys.

Perhaps the reason you cannot select "basic" layout is because your language/region setting is something other than US/US English -- my system is set to Canada/US English, and my keyboard commandline is "setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us -variant intl" but I have no deadkeys. I also only have the "intl" layout option. I have no idea why the system insists on giving you deadkeys with the identical keyboard selection -- is it possible the console keyboard configuration affects this keyboard layout somehow?