German umlauts are missing, Kubuntu 9.10

[Hausmoasta]

Hi Sinclair,
@ is working, but that's the only one in the first row. The umlaute have
there own keys, there is - usually - no need to press additional
buttons, they are on the first level.
I tried your hint, but no change.
Ciao
Tom

O. Sinclair schrieb:
> keyboard and my/our umlauts are working as expected. However, suddenly I 
> could not type the "@" sign, it resides on ALT GR + 2 for us. Whatever I 
> did I got 2 or " as outcome.
>
> Remembering that someone had headaches with a key combination I went to 
> System Settings, Regional & Language, chose Keyboard Layout followed by 
> tab Advanced.
>
> Among many settings in there I found "Key to choose 3rd level" with 
> nothing ticked. I ticked "Right Alt" and voila - @ is back in business.
>
> Could it be that you also must set some box among these to get your 
> umlauts kicking in? Also I set "meta" to be mapped to Win keys and some 
> more "dead keys" came alive.
>
> Best,
> Sinclair
>
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