On Friday 29 September 2006 22:42, Duff Mckagan wrote:
I am also looking for such stuff....I wanna type German Special Characters (Umlauts) but can't find a way to do that with the US keyboard Layout. Changing to the German Keyboard layout is an option, but not quite convenient.
In Windows, I can type that by pressing Alt+<ASCII Code of the character> ..but in Linux I don't find such an option.
Does anybody know of a similar thing in Linux?
And yeah...what is "Alt Gr" ?
There is this (cute but not all that useful) xvkvd utility which SuSE supplies (homepage http://homepage3.nifty.com/tsato ) It puts a little on-screen visual keyboard where you can hit the compose key followed by other keys to type fairly useless stuff like æ or ¼ and instantly call up a German Layout keyboard where you can type those funky German ü § ß characters. But its slow. I suppose If I absolutely had to have a ¼ symbol its better than nothing. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen