German umlauts are missing, Kubuntu 9.10

[Bas Roufs]

Hello Tom

don't know who else will follow this thread - so I'll try to stay in
> english.
>

I hope you will find a solution via this thread in this forum.
However, it can also be useful to seek support via one or more of the German
speaking channels:
http://www.kubuntu.org/support/deutsch

> .....
> > dead acute
> > dead grave acute
> > Romanian key ...dead keys
> > Sun dead keys
> > Macintosh dead keys
> > /
> None of them worked.


Try one or more of them again. Before doing so, CLOSE ALL OTHER
APPLICATIONS. Each time after selecting one keyboar variant, act as follows:
* press 'apply'
* Control-q (= quitting the application)
* Control-Alt-Del or K-menu  > leave.
* choose 'restart'.

If it still does not work properly, I would advise to file a bug report.
Myself, I already activated two keyboards: "USA alternative international"
and "Russian phonetic". I am afraid I would wreck up my system if I would
activate a third key board.


> The function itself is working, when I try Dvorak I get: ,.pyf But this way
> should influence all applications. My problem is, that  there are some
> applications (openoffice, kate,..) with no problems and some applications
> which don't want to show me the umlauts (Mozilla, gedit). And that all
> depends on the logged-in user.
>

Also in this case, I would advise to act as suggested above : apply, quit
and restart.


But there's a button on my german-keyboard with the umlaut-a, there
> should be no reason to use such a workaround. Even because it is working
> in other applications, users,..
>


If you do not use French, such Umlaut buttons on your key board should be
sufficient.

P.S. You could also use the apply-quit-restart procedure after carrying out
the advises given to you by Sinclair.

Respectfully yours,
Bas.
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