[SOLVED]Accents like é doesn't seem to work

Xacky · 2012-04-29 13:08:40

Dear Arch-users,

Some time ago, I made the transition from Debian to Archlinux. Most things weren't that difficult and if it was I could easily solve it with help from the wiki's/fora.

Butt there's one probably easy problem that I just can't seem to fix. The accents on é won't work by typing e and then '.

I found this wiki Accents_on_US_keyboards. But that one is talking about an ''compose-key'' which I don't really like. I would really like to just type ' en than e to get é cause I'm really used to that.

Relevant data
Rc.conf LOCALE is set to nl_NL@euro
Its an American International QWERTY keyboard
My main language is dutch

My English isn't not so good, so I apologize for the errors, hope some guys/girls can point me in the right direction

Kind regards.

Wilco

Last edited by Xacky (2012-04-29 14:16:49)

Trilby · 2012-04-29 14:00:27

I'm not sure if there is any very clean way of doing that system wide. Do you want this in just some applications, or globally?

If you do want it to be global, you could remap ' to a script or program that would read the next keypress and produce the proper key, but then how would you type a normal ' ? Perhaps it could be set like a screen/tmux prefix so that ' followed by another ' would make the single quote mark.

If this is what you want, xbindkeys should do the trick.

litemotiv · 2012-04-29 14:09:09

I believe that when you use the "us-intl" keymap instead of the default "us", you should automatically get "dead-key" functionality.

Try this in a terminal for instance:

$ setxkbmap -layout us -variant intl

Xacky · 2012-04-29 14:15:52

Trilby, I use my computer mainly for typing and making reports and analyse´s writing blogs. So browser and office is most important.

The trick litemovit gave me did the trick and its almost the way I like it,.. Thnx for the help you both.

DSpider · 2012-04-29 15:16:09

$ setxkbmap -layout us -variant intl

This is only temporary, until the next time you start your computer.

For a more permanent solution you can either place the command in ~/.xinitrc to run at boot (before the "exec <window manager or DE>" line), or use this in your xorg.conf (or in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-keyboard.conf):

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier             "Keyboard Defaults"
    MatchIsKeyboard	   "yes"
    Option	           "XkbLayout" "us"
    Option                 "XkbVariant" "intl"
EndSection

Or, same thing:

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier             "Keyboard Defaults"
    MatchIsKeyboard        "yes"
    Option                 "XkbLayout"   "us(intl)"
EndSection

Xacky · 2012-05-05 13:24:51

DSpider wrote:

$ setxkbmap -layout us -variant intl
This is only temporary, until the next time you start your computer.
For a more permanent solution you can either place the command in ~/.xinitrc to run at boot (before the "exec <window manager or DE>" line), or use this in your xorg.conf (or in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-keyboard.conf):
Section "InputClass"
    Identifier             "Keyboard Defaults"
    MatchIsKeyboard	   "yes"
    Option	           "XkbLayout" "us"
    Option                 "XkbVariant" "intl"
EndSection
Or, same thing:
Section "InputClass"
    Identifier             "Keyboard Defaults"
    MatchIsKeyboard        "yes"
    Option                 "XkbLayout"   "us(intl)"
EndSection

I found out about the temporary sometime later,

Thnx for the helpfull response everything is working fine now.

Arch Linux

#1 2012-04-29 13:08:40

[SOLVED]Accents like é doesn't seem to work

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Re: [SOLVED]Accents like é doesn't seem to work

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