Hi David, I installed kdeutils3-extra. Thanks. However, it is strange that it does not work in this version because I was able to use it by default up to version 12.3. I have a running version of 11.3 and the "Keyboard Shortcuts" are identical. I went to kcontrol->Regional&Accessibility->Keyboard Layout and turned on Xkb Options. There is an entry "key Position of Compose key" but it does not give me any options. Would it help to tweak /etc/sysconfig/keyboard or /etc/X11/xorg.conf? I would appreciate any advice. Thanks, Gianluca On Sat, 7 Jul 2018, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 07/06/2018 08:38 PM, Gianluca Interlandi wrote:
To be more precise. What I'm trying to do is to activate the so called "compose key", which normally consists of pressing "Ctrl+Shift" at the same time, let go and then press for example ' and then e to get é, or " and u to get ü. It is not working at least in 13.2.
Thanks,
Gianluca
È É
In gtk apps in kde3 are
Press ctrl+shift+u (then let go and) Press c8 (or c9 for the next)
As I recall, this does not work by default in Qt applications because of the default keybinding in kcontrol->Regional&Accessibility->Keyboard Shortcuts.
You may try tweaking the config there, or looking at kcontrol->Regional&Accessibility->Keyboard Layout.
In the mean time, the easiest way is to simply use kcharselect which allows access to any character within the character set. It is provided in the kdeutils3-extra package.
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