On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 09:48 +0800, George OLson wrote:
On 08/06/2011 02:34 AM, Carlos Frederico Lange wrote:
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:13 PM, George OLson<grglsn765@gmail.com> wrote:
All I need to do is to be able to use the keyboard to enter the characters without having to take a mouse and clicking on an insert special character function when I type out data in a word processor like libre office, or when I enter text in a cell in a spreadsheet or database.
This is called the Compose Key or Multi_key (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Compose_key) and you can influence which key is used by adding an item to your xorg.conf, such as: Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin" in the Section "InputDevice".
In openSUSE, it has long been set to the right Ctrl+Shift key combination. Here is an excerpt from my Instructions to Users, which I give to my students: "Fonts: To produce accented characters, use the right Ctrl+Shift keys as Compose keys. Press the combination first, then press the accent key, then press the accented letter key. Within KMail, if Shift is pressed first, the text becomes flush-right (press Left Shift then Left Shift+Ctrl to fix). By starting with the Ctrl key, this conflicting behaviour is avoided. If you have problems displaying foreign characters (accented letters) in any text editor, try changing the font encoding method from utf-8 to iso8859-1. "
I get the same effect with the ALT key instead of the ctr-shift key. Even more strange, I see that if I press an accent key once and then the character, it also works. No compose key is needed. I have to press accent keys twice to get the actual accent. I just did this in LibreOffice 3.3.1 on openSUSE 11.4, and in evolution (a GNOME app), kwrite and konsole (KDE 4.7), and a good old fashioned character login. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 SHAW'S PRINCIPAL Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org