[SOLVED] Re: no accents in GTK2 apps

[UH]

Wow! I'll check that as soon as i can on the powerbook! Thanks for sharing!

2012/10/28 紳癒礁湖 <rafaellaguna at gmail.com>:
> 目 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 09:53:54 +0100, UH <uhtlmk at googlemail.com> 書いた：
>
>> I know, and i tried. But as i said, with no effect. And, if you have a
>> look at that Debian thread, you'll see it seems to be a problem for
>> many. As far as i remember back, when ubuntu still officially
>> supported ppc in Gnome you could set the keyboard prefs effectively.
>>
>> For what i did, as a result, i've the keyboard 3rd level chooser
>> included working. But i lost the ctr-alt-f1 thru f7 (consoles and
>> back). I asked for in the german ubuntu forums and someone kindly
>> guided me at least to the point i could establish the consoles indeed
>> were there, it's only missing the shortcut to access them.
>>
>> Now, it's far far above my capabilities to deal (and customize) a
>> keyboard layout and put  my soul in peace with that situation, happy i
>> could type in what i wanted and with the keys being there where they
>> are expected to be.
>>
>> PS. For the i386 and the amd64, the german keyb works out of the box
>> (although on the amd64 i've problems with some fn-key combinations
>> (fn-f6 thru fn-f8, sound related, do not work; fn-f11 (fan control)
>> and fn-f12 (wireless on/off) became working only by installation of
>> samsung-tools).
>>
>> 2012/10/28  <leszek.lesner at web.de>:
>> > This has nothing todo with the keyboard layout in particular but rather with
>> > the options for the layout to switch to the third level. So you just had to
>> > choose a key here (I think its the left alt on a mac keyboard) in the
>> > options of lxkeymap.
>> > This btw. the same behavior like on KDE (don't know about gnome 3 here)
>> >
>> >
>> > -- Gesendet von meinem HP TouchPad
>> > ________________________________
>> > Am 28.10.2012 09:23 schrieb UH <uhtlmk at googlemail.com>:
>> > For me, on a Powerbook, it never ever worked. I could choose Mac
>> > german as keyboard layout, but it was not effective at all ... So i
>> > gave up and looked for another way to get to the @sign, square
>> > brackets, programmer brackets etc.
>> >
>> > 2012/10/28 <leszek.lesner at web.de>:
>> >> What do you mean by this ?
>> >>
>> >> Nodeadkeys and other configurations seen in gnomes or kdes keyboard
>> >> configurators are available. Or am I missing something ?
>> >>
>> >> The only thing lxkeymap cannot set is the global keyboard layout (as this
>> >> needs root permissions)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Von meinem Nokia N9 gesendet
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> UH schrieb am 28.10.12 08:31:
>> >>
>> >> And yes LXKeymap misses somewhat the essentials for those with foreign
>> >> (=not angloamerican) keyboards. I'm happy you confirm my laments :)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 2012/10/28 UH <uhtlmk at googlemail.com>:
>> >>> Rafael, here i'm an expert: Do the following sudo dpkg-reconfigure
>> >>> keyboard" and choose whatever adapts to your case. Then do 'sudo
>> >>> dpkg-reconfigure locales' and choose UTF8 - it should work. When
>> >>> you'll wait i bit i'll find out the thread where i wrote it down . . .
>> >>> ;)
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> 2012/10/28 紳癒礁湖 <uhtlmk at googlemail.com>:
>> >>
>> >>>> I have a weird situation in my (clean) 12.10 system. I can't use
>> >>>> accented
>> >>>> characters (accents, dieresis, etc) with GTK2 apps, but I can write fine
>> >>>> with GTK3 ones. My keyboard is a 105 intl. key, spanish with middle dot
>> >>>> key.
>> >>>> I'm using the catalan language. LXKeyboard is set to that.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Did I messed it up when installing Anthy or something?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Thanks.
>> >>>>
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>> >>>> Lubuntu Artwork Team
>> >>>>
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>
> Okay, found it! ÁÉÍÓÚÀÈÌÒÙÄËÏÖÜ
>
> The problem was in the file .pam_environment (don't know its utility). Its content as:
>
> LANGUAGE=ca:en
> LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8
>
> changed into:
>
> LANGUAGE=ca:es
> LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8
>
> I was in "Canadian" mode, not "Catalan" mode. Now the question is, who made this hidden file? What's intended for? And the ugly question...
>
> is Ubuntu confusing CAnada with CAtalan?
>
> Cheers!
>
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> 紳癒礁湖 (Rafael Laguna)
> Lubuntu Artwork Team