[Edgy] vowels in gnome

[SmasSive]

I get the vowels by pressing "right alt" + "any vocal" but what I want
is to get the vowels pressing ' + vocal as normally in dapper or other
OSes or as I get in gdm...

Thanks!



El vie, 03-11-2006 a las 09:58 -0500, Jaime Davila escribió:
> SmasSive wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have a problem with vowels in gnome. I'm a spanish user with a pc105
> > keyboard, well configured in Xorg and gdm, I can type vowels in a console
> > and in the login screen of gdm but when I run into gnome, I can't.
> > 
> > The only maner I can type a vowel is combining alt key + vocal. I've
> > configured gnome with pc105 generic keyboard but didn't work...
> > 
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> 
> 
> I'm not sure I understand when it is that things work for you and when 
> they don't, but here's how I get accents and other special characters in 
> gnome. This works in any application I run from gnome.
> 
> All you have to do is tell gnome which key to use for composing 
> characters. You tell it in the following way:
> 
> Start->System->Preferences->keyboard. Then click on the /Layout Options/ 
> tab. Click on /Compose Key Position/, and then choose which key you want 
> to use as the compose key. I personally use the right-alt key.
> 
> After that, I just need to press right-alt, and the combination of 
> characters that get me what I need. For example, I get á by pressing 
> right-alt, ', and a. In that way, I can get the following characters: á 
> é í ó ú ü (u and ") ñ (n and ~). I imagine there's a bunch of other 
> characters, but those are the ones I tend to use.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Jaime
> 
> 
> 
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