accent marks, us-intl keyboard in fluxbuntu

[Felipe Figueiredo]

Em Thursday 03 January 2008 19:04:29 anthony baldwin escreveu:
> Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
> > Em Saturday 29 December 2007 21:43:57 anthony baldwin escreveu:
> >   
> >> Hi,
> >> In KDE/Kubuntu, I can type my accent marks:
> >> ö û é ñ ã à ç ¡¿, etc.
> >> In fluxbox, however, I can not do any that use the alt key:
> >> ¿ ¡ (logged into kde to write this)
> >> I set the system up for us-intl keyboard (using kde tools).
> >>     
> >
> > That's because KDE is not 'just' a window-manager - it manages its own 
locale 
> > configuration, regardless of X's. If you want consistency, you must 
configure 
> > X to use us-intl.
> >
> > The last time I used fluxbox (early last year) I was led to believe the 
> > simplest way to do this was to 
> >
> > sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
> >
> >
> >   
> >> Any idea why ¡¿ don't work in fluxbox?
> >> ¿Hay alguién que está utilisando fluxbox que puede hacer estas marcas?
> >> Also for ç in kde I just type (ctrl-,) whilst in flux, I must use
> >> (ctrl-,-c).
> >> Why?
> >>     
> >
> >
> > Beats me. I always used (´-c) (dead key for the acute accent), as it's the 
> > common way in Brazil. It should work with any combination of X plus wm. 
> > (however, see the bug #)
> >
> >   
> 
> 
> Muito obrigado pela sua atenção, Felipe,
> 
> But, I'm pretty sure that X is set up for US-Intl (with dead keys),
> because I can make all the other marks in fluxbox.
> à ô é ã ë ç etc.
> It's just stuff that uses the alt-key (¿ ¡ ® )that doesn't work in fluxbox,

Then your problem is configuring properly the AltGr key, not dead-keys as I 
first suspected. IIRC, there is also a section for this in the dialogs for 
reconfiguring xsever-xorg. Did you try all of those options?

> You mention bug#...., but there is no number...
> Is it a ubuntu bug, a fluxbox bug?
> Where is it?

Ahem... Actually, it's a philsf® bug ;-) 

I was looking for the bug report when I clicked "send now" (doh). Turns out, I 
don't know if the bug was ever reported, but anyway, here's the fix:

http://hmbr.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/gtk-and-cedilla-a-big-brazillian-problem

regards
FF