[Edgy] vowels in gnome

[Constantine Evans]

Change your keymap to one with dead keys (usually one that doesn't say 
"dead keys removed").

Constantine

SmasSive wrote:
> 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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>>
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>> Jaime J. Davila
>> Associate Professor of Computer Science
>> Hampshire College
>> School of Cognitive Science
>> jdavila at hampshire dot edu
>> http://helios.hampshire.edu/jdavila
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