On Tue, Jun 26, Bob Torres wrote:

With that said, I need some help now. By and large, I communicate in English, but on occasion, I need to compose emails in Spanish. What I need to figure out how to do is switch keyboard configurations on the fly, or how to send the accented characters and tildes. I tried the directions in the support database, but they didn't work for me. I also tried the International settings in KDE2, but they ended up screwing up my English keymap, and I had a hard time getting it back.

For what its worth, I'm running SuSE 7.1 out of the box, with Gnome. Accented characters appear correctly in the terminal, but I just can't seem to make them myself! I'm also using an external extended USB keyboard, by Macally.

Try something like that (and be careful, dont use a PC map!): /usr/X11R6/bin/xkbset -l "xfree86:macintosh:complete:complete:macintosh/us(extended)+macintosh/de(nodeadkeys):macintosh" You should modify the `+macintosh/de(nodeadkeys)` part. XFree86 4.1.0 contains two maps for spanish keyboards. There is a map for PC style keyboards, use `+macintosh/es(iso)`. The older ADB keyboards should use `+macintosh/es(basic)`. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...